Oswald Chambers Quotes

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

My life is so full of sacrifices.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

I know the word 'sacrifice.'

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.