Oswald Chambers Quotes

We heard God speak today. God in the flesh. The voice of God.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature.

The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

This is the first indication I have ever had that there is a God.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

We owe the world an encounter with God

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God