Oswald Chambers citations

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

“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”

“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.”

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

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

“When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.”

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

“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.”

“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.”

“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”

“Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.”

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

“Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.”

“God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”

“One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.”

“We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.”

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

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

“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.”

“Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.”

“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.”

“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”

“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…”