Oswald Chambers Quotes

It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

God will put me where he wants me.

God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

What’s the will of God for my life? You don’t need to know the will of God in your life, you need to know the God of your life!

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

Mission exists because worship doesn't.

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.