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
prayer secret impossible
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer
saint impossible difficulty
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
light bitterness impossible
When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
limits impossible allowing
God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.
jesus breathing impossible-things
Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.
trying way impossible
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
want way responsible
We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
absurd certain dealt destroy face ignoring increase mind pray second seen
Certain things can only be dealt with by ignoring them; if you face them you increase their power. It is absurd to say, Pray about them; when once a thing is seen to be wrong, don't pray about it, it fixes the mind on it; never for a second brood on it, destroy it by neglect.
not-good-enough enemy faith-in-god
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
stars lasts sand
When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.
stars people heaven
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould
obedience conditions inclination
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.
jesus remember christ
Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
design
We are here for God's designs, not for our own