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
valleys height drudgery
The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.
enemy utmost-for-his-highest
The good is always the enemy of the best.
sorrow amount shallowness
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
jesus father hands
In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.
spiritual heart men
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.
christian jesus spirit
The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.
god christian worry
If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
prayer two waiting
Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.
character men tongue
The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.
gold weight worth-it
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
giving vision matter
When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
christian jesus way
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
character done holy
When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
jesus opinion said
Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.