158 "Oswald Chambers" Quotes And Sayings

Oswald Chambers was born on 28 April 1874 at Meerut, India, the son of Edward and Elizabeth Chambers. He was converted to the Christian faith by his grandmother, who had him baptized on her knees at the age of five. From this time on he gave himself to prayer and Bible study. At the age of eighteen Oswald was sent to England where he attended a Bible college at Windsor, Berkshire Read more

Oswald then spent two years at Leighton Buzzard Bible College in Bedfordshire where he completed his studies with honours. He returned to India in 1895, where he served as Pastor of the Pentecostal Church at Meerut from 1895 to 1900 when he came to America. In 1918 Oswald moved from Georgia to Georgia to Georgia where he established a church for black people.

In 1933 Oswald moved from Georgia to Georgia where he built a church for black people in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1944 Oswald moved from Georgia to Georgia where he bought a property in Lakeland, Florida, and built a church there before it burned down in December 1945. The church was rebuilt and reopened in 1946 under the leadership of Rev.

T.M. Chambers, Oswald's son-in-law and a former pastor in Lakeland, Florida who remained head pastor until his death in 1984.

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. Oswald Chambers
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose...
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. Oswald Chambers
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes...
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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart. Oswald Chambers
The author who benefits you most is not the one...
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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
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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. Oswald Chambers
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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. Oswald Chambers
Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget...
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Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning. Oswald Chambers
A time is coming when the whole round world will...
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A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last. Oswald Chambers
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection. Oswald Chambers
The life of faith is not a life of mounting...
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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. Oswald Chambers
We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of...
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We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God. Oswald Chambers
... God loved me not because I was lovable, but...
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... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so. Oswald Chambers
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith...
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As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. Oswald Chambers
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The "show business, " which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes. . Oswald Chambers
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to...
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Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. Oswald Chambers
There is no condition of life in which we cannot...
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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 Oswald Chambers
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience. Oswald Chambers
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Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature-- He brings them down from above. Oswald Chambers
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A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord. Oswald Chambers
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The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us. Oswald Chambers