Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.
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.
When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould
We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.
Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.