Oswald Chambers Quotes

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

I think the main thing that we have to do is try and train ourselves to remember from moment to moment that God is living within us and within everybody else, and just trying to remember to see that.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time.

The Yogi must always practice.

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.