Oswald Chambers Quotes

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

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.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.