Oswald Chambers Quotes

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

Your soul is between you and God.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that received through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this. . . . I urge you to continue throughout your lives to cultivate a heart in tune with the Spirit. If you do so, your lives will be enriched. You will feel a kinship with God our Eternal Father. You will taste the sweetness of joy that can be had in no other way.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.