Oswald Chambers Quotes

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of anger and deal with it. Get rid of the masks and face the things that happened in your life that made you the way you are today. Admit that you can't change by yourself. Until the root is removed, it'll continue to produce one bad fruit after another.

You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God. [….] God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God.

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.

If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.