Oswald Chambers Quotes

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.

I got started on my spiritual path when I was a kid. My mom taught me how to meditate and brought me to ashrams and spiritual circles.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

In the natural life, we eat, we drink water, we give birth, we pay taxes. In the spiritual life, we can only reach it by faith.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.