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

— Oswald Chambers

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

— Oswald Chambers

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not his relationship with men that bothers him, but his relationship with God.

— Oswald Chambers

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.

— Oswald Chambers

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.

— Oswald Chambers

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret.

— Oswald Chambers

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

— Oswald Chambers

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

— Oswald Chambers

Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

— Oswald Chambers

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

— Oswald Chambers