Oswald Chambers

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

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

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

God did not direct His call to Isaiah_ Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God__ call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.

No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus_ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.

Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.

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.

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.