Quotes about Oswald Chambers

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Just as the nature of sin entered into the human race through one man, the Holy Spirit entered into the human race through another Man (see Romans 5:12—19). And redemption means that I can be

the greatest dissipater of our relationship to God is personal sympathy and personal prejudice.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection and lead souls away into side-eddies.

You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you . . ." (Acts 1:8)—not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us. The life that was in Jesus becomes ours because of His Cross, once we make the decision to be identified with Him.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Oswald Chambers says, "Intellectual darkness comes through ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered. . . . Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest