Oswald Chambers Quotes

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

I've been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn't feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere.

I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.

I finally discovered something - it's all about Jesus.

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.