Oswald Chambers Quotes

My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

Well, I've always held down Guru… His spirit knows this.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Spiritual consciousness is, on the whole, very adventurous and all about pursuing our deepest, most fulfilling dreams.

My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

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

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Let us realize the state we are in. Let us learn what needs to be learnt. Religion and God demand it.