Oswald Chambers Quotes

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.

In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."

He who knows himself knows god.

If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.

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

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information of God, in case God does not know my version of the facts.

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

That's why I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.