Oswald Chambers Quotes

When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

To the humble, the Lord has given this promise: "If men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me."

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.

I'm thankful God really slowed me down and showed me, whatever he had gave to me, he can take it away.

Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish