Oswald Chambers

“Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.”

“Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.”

“The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.”

“...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.”

“your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.”

“We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.”

“... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.”

“When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.”

“I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.”

“Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.”

“What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.”

“No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.”

“If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.”

“Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.”

“He comes where He commands us to leave.”

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”

“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”

“When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.”

“We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.”

“To follow Jesus today is to follow a madman according to the ideals of present day civilization. We have the idea that our civilization is God-ordained, whereas it has been built up by ourselves. We have made a thousand and one necessities until our system of civilized life is as cast iron, and then we apologize to the Lord for not following Him.”