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Oswald Chambers was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. July 1874 – 15. November 1917  •  Other names 오스왈드 챔버스
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My Utmost for His Highest
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Famous Oswald Chambers Quotes

“The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.”

Oswald Chambers

“I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”

Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.”

Oswald Chambers

“The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.”

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year

“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.”

Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

Oswald Chambers Quotes about God

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

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Journal

“It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes”

Oswald Chambers

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”

Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life…”

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year

Oswald Chambers Quotes about life

“God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.”

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

“Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness, it should be rather an expression of breathless expectation. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, He packs our life with surprises all the time.”

Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest

My Utmost for His Highest (1956). Section "April 30".

Oswald Chambers Quotes

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

Oswald Chambers

“Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.”

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year

“The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.”

Oswald Chambers

“No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.”

Oswald Chambers

“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

Oswald Chambers

“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

“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”

Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.”

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year

“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.”

Oswald Chambers

“Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.”

Oswald Chambers

“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”

Oswald Chambers

“Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.”

Oswald Chambers

“God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

“Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.”

Oswald Chambers

“Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.”

Oswald Chambers

Source: My Utmost for his Highest

“Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.”

Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest

My Utmost for His Highest (1956). Section "December 31".

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