Quotes about Devotion
Genuine total surrender is a personal sovereign preference for Jesus Christ Himself.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
- Oswald Chambers
Be persistent with your disturbance until you geg face to face with the Lord Himself. Don't deify common sense.
- Oswald Chambers
Lord, how I desire to see Thee, to hear Thee, to meditate on Thee and to manifestly grow like Thee! And Thou hast said, "Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
- Oswald Chambers
Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started.
- Oswald Chambers
Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be "His.
- Oswald Chambers
The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men.
- Oswald Chambers
The most important rule for us is to concentrate on keeping our lives open to God. Let everything else including work, clothes, and food be set aside.
- Oswald Chambers
The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men, but count everything in the estimate of God. Paul
- Oswald Chambers
In spiritual issues it is customary for us to put God first, but we tend to think that it is inappropriate and unnecessary to put Him first in the practical, everyday issues of our lives.
- Oswald Chambers
Consecration would soon be changed into sanctification if we would only concentrate on what God wants.
- Oswald Chambers
I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.
- Oswald Chambers