Oswald Chambers Quotes

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and in the foxhole of my divorce, I found solace in walking to St. Patrick's Cathedral and lighting candles.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.