Quotes by Oswald Chambers

“Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.”

“Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.”

“If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He will give them but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Hi...”

“You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.”

“When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.”

“God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.”

“Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.”

“Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.”

“Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.”

“Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.”

“Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.”

“Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.”

“Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.”

“Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.”

“God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to ...”

“This total surrender to 'the love of Christ' is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your ...”

“To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.”

“Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.”

“Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.”

“Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.”