Oswald Chambers Quotes

Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place.

A peaceful mind generates power.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Those who worship God only, can get rid of anxiety of mind; others cannot.

If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

The noblest mind the best contentment has

When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.

If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.