Oswald Chambers Quotes

I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I am just here to serve God's will.

The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'

I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

We have opportunities to be used by the living God on a daily basis and I don't need the platform of a concert hall to do so.

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.

If you are still alive, then God is NOT finished with you!

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

Now - find God's dream for your life and go all out for it!

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.