Oswald Chambers Quotes


We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.


Citations

Chambers, Oswald. My Utmost for His Highest. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935.

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Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
  • Born: July 24, 1874
  • Died: November 15, 1917
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Christian Minister Teacher

Oswald Chambers was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.