Quotes about God
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
- Oswald Chambers
Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
- Oswald Chambers
God always ignores your present level of completeness in favor of your ultimate future completeness. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you—"that they may be one just as We are one
- Oswald Chambers
The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love.
- Oswald Chambers
God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. And why is He doing it? He is doing it for only one purpose—that He may be able to say, "This is My man, and this is My woman." We have to be in God's hand so that He can place others on the Rock, Jesus Christ, just as He has placed us.
- Oswald Chambers
Jesus Christ's life was an absolute failure from every standpoint but God's. But what seemed failure from man's standpoint was a tremendous triumph from God's, because God's purpose is never man's purpose.
- Oswald Chambers
You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents--burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose--the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God. But you don't eliminate it, God does.
- Oswald Chambers
The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from the New Testament, but from the systems of the world in which endless energy and activities are insisted upon, but no private life with God.
- Oswald Chambers
Thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ . . . ." 2 Corinthians 2:14
- Oswald Chambers
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us.
- Oswald Chambers
The only possible way to have full understanding of the teachings of Jesus is through the light of the Spirit of God shining inside us.
- Oswald Chambers
What makes God so dear to us is not so much His big blessings to us, but the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us—He knows every detail of each of our individual lives.
- Oswald Chambers