Oswald Chambers Quotes

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

Let us always pray for one another.

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

It could have been me. And just the hope and prayers that, you know, if, if the shoes were switched, that you know, Laci would do the same thing for me.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.