Oswald Chambers Quotes

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

Faith, Time, God

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers

Religion, God, Eyes

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers

Power, Knowledge, Confidence

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers

Friend, Jesus, Earth

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

Amazing, God, Person

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers

Done, Whole, Getting

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

God, Enemy, Souls

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers

Character, Jesus, Means

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.
Oswald Chambers

End, Reality, Touch

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Oswald Chambers

Spiritual, Actual, Unseen

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.
Oswald Chambers

Cannot, Put, Might

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Oswald Chambers

Happiness, End, Chief

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
Oswald Chambers

God, Question, Spirit

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Oswald Chambers

Mind, Blessed, Books

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers

Good, Men, Book

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Theologian

Born: July 24, 1874

Died: November 15, 1917

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