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Oswald Chambers (July 24, 1874 – November 15, 1917) was a Scottish Christian minister, teacher, and writer, best known for his devotional classic 'My Utmost for His Highest'. Born in Aberdeen, he studied art in London before feeling called to ministry. He taught at the Bible Training College in London and served as a YMCA chaplain to British soldiers in Egypt during World War I, where he died of complications from appendicitis. His works, compiled posthumously by his wife Gertrude, have inspired millions worldwide.

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Famous Oswald Chambers Quotes

“Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.”

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

“When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.”

Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life

“As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.”

Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes

“If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.”

Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life

“If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility.”

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“God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'”

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Book:The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes

Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes

“It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.”

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“The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do. He reveals to you who he is.”

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“The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.”

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.”

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Book:Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart

Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart

“The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.”

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“The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition