Oswald Chambers Quotes

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

Our No. 1 goal on this Earth is to make disciples. That's the only job we want to do.

I've been working on my relationship with God, and when you work on your relationship with God, it gets to a point where you don't want to walk down the sinful road anymore.

Men are not born saints with special gifts and privileges. They fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, and as they conquer, the spirit of Jesus begins to shine through with more clarity.

I was about 14 when I became a Christian. I had been going to youth group, and I'd heard the Gospel preached, and then suddenly it all started to click. God opened my eyes to see Jesus for who He really was. After I trusted Christ, the Lord changed my entire perspective on everything.

Restored' has been about how God has restored my life.

We are winning millions to Christ, one soul at a time. Every single, solitary soul is precious.

I'm the dirtiest of the dirty. I mess up all the time. I suck as a Christian. I can't stand religion. But I love Jesus, and I'm trying.

There was a time when I was in my sins and I was God's enemy, but now I have been purchased in Christ, and God is for me. He is not going to do anything or command anything that is not ultimately for my good and for His glory.

You must come to Jesus if you want to go to Heaven. He will change your nature; He will change all evil habits.

One of the things that I just kind of became very enthusiastic about, and wanted to learn more about it, is how God saves.

I found my identity in Christ. When everything else around me was falling down I found my identity in God.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)

Many biblical passages teach that we're not saved by our own efforts but by the grace of God alone. But the same passages also tell us good works are an essential evidence of the salvation experience. We're not saved by good works, but for good works. It begins with God's grace, and it's sustained by his grace as you shape your character by what you do as you cross the bridge.