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
soul way clear
If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.
joy reckless glad
Obey Him with glad reckless joy.
greatness notes creeds
'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
appreciation deliverance bases
The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.
christ devotion threat
There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.
jesus cheer men
Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
water people may
Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.
god christian spirit
One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.
knows
Begin to know Him now, and finish never
crisis has-beens
The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.
prayer sixty-minutes tests
The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
father men life-is
All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.
theology practicals
Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.
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.