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
faith inspiration wine
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
mould minutes five-minutes
It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
prayer answers redemption
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
jesus men people
People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.
jesus commitment opportunity
My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.
jesus doctrine causes
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
matter becoming sin
Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?
tasks surprise abandon
As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
jesus devotion competitors
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
life-is aim mines
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
jesus order giving
If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.
devotion filled overflow
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
giving vision lines
When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
cost salvation
Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.