Oswald Chambers- My Utmost for His Highest.

12 of Chambers’ most profound quotes:

ON FAITH

“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and

knows the One who is leading.”

ON PRAYER

“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be

our first line of defence. We pray when there’s nothing else we
can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at
all.”

“Prayer is not getting things from God, that is the most initial
stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God; I
tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to
know it as He does.”
ON DOUBT

“Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a

sign that he is thinking.”

ON BEING ORDINARY

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made
extraordinary by the purpose he has given them.

ON SIN

“If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He

does not ask you to put it right; He asks you to accept the light,
and He will put it right.”

ON FEARING GOD

“The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God,
you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear
everything else.”
ON SUFFERING

“No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses

God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.”

ON HOLINESS

God has one destined end for mankind – holiness! His one aim
is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-
machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He
came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

ON GOD’S SILENCE

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.

ON LEGALISM

“Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to

avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian
workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian
workers should be their concentration on God. This will mean
that all the other boundaries of life, whether they are mental,
moral, or spiritual limits, are completely free with the freedom
God gives His child; that is, a worshiping child, not a wayward
one. A worker who lacks this serious controlling emphasis of
concentration on God is apt to become overly burdened by his
work. He is a slave to his own limits, having no freedom of his
body, mind, or spirit. Consequently, he becomes burned out
and defeated. There is no freedom and no delight in life at all.
His nerves, mind, and heart are so overwhelmed that God’s
blessing cannot rest on him.”

ON CONVICTIONS

“Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own

convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important
consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life.
It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be
consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing
humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to
Him.”