Oswald Chambers Quotes

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Trust in God and keep your powder dry.

There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.

Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.

Faith is the flip side of fear.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

I always have issues with trust.

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.