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
spiritual ideas waiting
There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.
happiness men holiness
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
jesus consistency christianity
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
grace growth sin
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
grace doe bears
Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.
christian prayer thinking
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
spiritual believe character
Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.
grace doe good-things
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
jesus want virtue
Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.
mastery imagine circumstances
It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
memories son soul
Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.
inspired our-relationship proof
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
independence sin deliberate
Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
law perception moral
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.