Oswald Chambers Quotes

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.

And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan's ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.

Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.

I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind. .. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me.

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

I know for myself how the fruits of the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform lives from the ordinary and dreary to the extraordinary and sublime.

Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.