Quotes by Oswald Chambers

• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."
• We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
• I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
• Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
• Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
• A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
• When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
• If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.