Oswald Chambers Quotes

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

If any fail to govern by what God has revealed, those are the wrongdoers.

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.