Oswald Chambers Quotes

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

You should never trust a person who prays in public.

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it.

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.