Oswald Chambers Quotes

Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

To follow Jesus means to share his merciful love for every human being.

What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.