Oswald Chambers Quotes

Went to church and fasted all day.

Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.

It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.

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

If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

I have a great support system and I know how to prioritize everything. I strive to keep God in every aspect of my life so that's important, because some days, it requires you to have a great deal of strength. Then, my family is second and it's in that specific order. I look around and I see how everything falls into place once you know which comes first.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

Concentrate: you can't have it all.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.