Quotes about Trust
The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to discourage you.
— Oswald Chambers
Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.
— Oswald Chambers
what God wants us to do is to "walk by faith." How many of us have set ourselves aside as if to say, "I cannot do anything else until God appears to me"? He will never do it. We will have to get up on our own, without any inspiration and without any sudden touch from God. Then comes our surprise and we find ourselves exclaiming, "Why, He was there all the time, and I never knew it!
— Oswald Chambers
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
— Oswald Chambers
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
— Oswald Chambers
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
— Oswald Chambers
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
— Oswald Chambers
Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.
— Oswald Chambers
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
— Oswald Chambers
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
— Oswald Chambers
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
— Oswald Chambers
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
— Oswald Chambers