Oswald Chambers

“When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.”

“Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.”

“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.”

“The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L”

“There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R”

“Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.”

“We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.”

“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”

“The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.”

“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”

“To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.”

“God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.”

“Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.”

“Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”

“We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.”

“Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.”

“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.”

“Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus.”

“The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.”

“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”