Oswald Chambers Quotes

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their state in life, sacrifice themselves for their neighbor, and keep their hearts and minds free of this world.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

The more we make our lives about us, then the more we waste our time. When we get older, we devote our lives to ourselves, and then we wasted it. If we want to devote our lives to something significant, something that matters, then we should devote our lives to the Lord Jesus.

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

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.

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

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.