Oswald Chambers Quotes

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

I think it would be a welcome reminder to every American that we can pray a good deal more at home. We can attend our churches with a good deal more fidelity.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of you parents, you couples, have lost that essential moment of kneeling together at the end of the day, just the two of you, holding hands and saying your prayers. If that has slipped away from your daily routine, may I suggest you put it back-beginning tonight!

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.

How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your heart.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps, to refocus on the Word and the will of God

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.