Oswald Chambers Quotes

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.