Oswald Chambers Quotes

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Sometimes when you have lost, you don't want to speak to anybody.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.