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
christian saint should
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.
christian jesus people
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.
wine broken bread
God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.
jesus son destiny
The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
mistake mean self
Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
fear-nothing fear-not fear-god
When you fear God you fear nothing else!
voice silence damnation
To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!
character way crooks
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
character trying arguing
It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
suffering world midst
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
use
Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
jesus men blood
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
forgiveness miracle grace
Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
giving succeed holy
There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.