Oswald Chambers Quotes

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

Make the study of the Torah your chief occupation; speak little, but accomplish much.

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

I am keen on a spiritual life and have struggled to find a place for my heart in a religious community.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you unconsciously been caught in that trap?

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second

We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.