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.

— Oswald Chambers

He comes where He commands us to leave.

— Oswald Chambers

He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...

— Oswald Chambers

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

— Oswald Chambers

Human nature if it healthily demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no passionless saints.

— Oswald Chambers

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

— Oswald Chambers

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 Himself.

— Oswald Chambers

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.

— Oswald Chambers

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

— 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