Oswald Chambers Quotes

Men are never safe against the temptation of claiming God too simply as the sanctifier of whatever we most fervently desire.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

Each single thing can be referred more easily to the hand and rod of God. This is nothing more or less than wishing to please God by a lie.

When a Republican tells me that God’s hand is in his, demand to see his credentials.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

We must obey God and not man.

God doesn’t want me to do this, so I can’t do what God doesn’t want me to do

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Among the most important such false gods in our time is the United Nations, which has become a new religion that is worshipped to the exclusion of God… It issues documents and statements that openly contradict Islamic belief, such as International Declaration for Human Rights, considering all religions are equal, and considering that the destruction of the statues constitutes a crime.

We desire to repose at the feet of your Holiness the assurance of our filial loyalty of our devotion to your August Person, as well as our firm resolve to be guided in all our work by the teaching of Christ, and to be guided in all our work by the teaching of Christ, and to strive for the attainment of a social order in Ireland based on Christian principles.

My faith is my life. It defines me. My faith doesn’t influence my decisions; it drives them.

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

I believe in divine intervention.

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we want to be better than we are, and we sometimes don't face up to the real questions.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.