Oswald Chambers Quotes

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

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

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.

I love my God, and whenever I want something, I pray to Him, and my wish is fulfilled. That's my success mantra.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, he'll heal your body and fix every one of your problems, if you need that, you're lost.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #‎ prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #‎ Heaven .

There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.