Oswald Chambers Quotes

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

Like most people, what I find irritating in others are my own faults.

With things that I'm going through, whether they be on a small scale or a large scale, I'm thinking, 'Who else is going through this? And how can I address it and bring it to light to help someone else?'

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

I observe myself and I come to know others.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.