Oswald Chambers Quotes

God can do all sorts of things, God does not need me! But He commands me to be like His Son, and that is all.

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.

Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize and follow His purpose from the beginning was Jesus. He alone was able to obey consistently and please God completely. And His divine mission was to make a way for each of us to do the same.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

God's mark is on everything that obeys Him.

Jesus refused to produce a sign for Herod because it was not the Father's will.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it.

If you tell God 'no' because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say 'yes' to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

He saved us in order that He might begin to transform His world into the kind of world that He willed for it to be when He created it. … When Jesus saved us, He saved us to be agents of a great revolution, the end of which will come when the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our God