Oswald Chambers Quotes

When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.

If God had me run for something, I would do it in a heartbeat.

The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!

If God tells me to write another book, then I will.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

I just want to do God’s will.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream.

All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

God doesn't always give us a blueprint for our lives, but he always gives us a next step.

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.