Oswald Chambers Quotes

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

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.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

It is through our prayers, through our acts of faith that God works in partnership with us.