Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chamberswas an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 July 1874
jesus noble remember
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
remember realizing
Don't read to remember; read to realize.
jesus intimate-relationships joy
It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
prayer reality men
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
beautiful inspiration sunrise
We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.
sleep past opportunity
Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
jesus archer sight
Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.
jesus trust-no-one sight
Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
jesus sea giving
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.
giving next tomorrow
God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
teaching character thinking
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
humble doors thieves
Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
oneness christ divides
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
sin ifs
If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.