Oswald Chambers Quotes

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

Grace changes us and change is painful".

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-