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
Oswald Chambers quotes about
temptation progress steps
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
valleys height drudgery
The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.
earthquakes stubbornness come-up
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
common-sense temptation ghost
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.
abiding easy lifestyle
The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.
waste asking wasting-time
Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.
holiness abandonment values
Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!
obedience conditions inclination
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.
roots grows refuse
Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.
abiding
Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.
saint impossible difficulty
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
divine resources walks
God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.
not-good-enough enemy faith-in-god
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
delight spirit imagine
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.