Oswald Wirth Quotes

It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others. ~ Oswald Chambers

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. ~ Oswald Chambers

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ. ~ Oswald Chambers

When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus. ~ Oswald Chambers

It is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit that changes people, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into their lives through the Holy Spirit. We all too often separate things that the New Testament never separates. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not an experience apart from Jesus Christ - it is the evidence of the ascended Christ. ~ Oswald Chambers

If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection and lead souls away into side-eddies. ~ Oswald Chambers

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down. ~ Oswald Boelcke

The Bible distinguishes between "having" the Holy Spirit, which is true of all believers, and being "filled" with the Holy Spirit, which is true of very few. ~ Oswald J. Smith

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort
"happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering. ~ Oswald Spengler

The secret of the missionary is ... I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me. ~ Oswald Chambers

There are not three levels of spiritual life--worship, waiting, and work...God's idea is that the three should go together as one. ~ Oswald Chambers

By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done. ~ Oswald Chambers

confidence in Him. It is because of our trusting in experience that we see the steadfast impatience of the Holy Spirit against unbelief. All of our fears are sinful, and we create our own fears by refusing to nourish ourselves in our faith. How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear! Our lives should be an absolute hymn of praise resulting from perfect, irrepressible, ~ Oswald Chambers

Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others. ~ Oswald Chambers

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves. ~ Oswald Chambers

Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature. ~ Oswald Chambers

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way. ~ Oswald Chambers

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. ~ Oswald Chambers

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. ~ Oswald Chambers

Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary characters. Among microorganisms the most striking example of inheritable and specific alterations in cell structure and function that can be experimentally induced and are reproducible under well defined and adequately controlled conditions is the transformation of specific types of Pneumococcus. ~ Oswald Avery

Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating. ~ James Oswald

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God ~ Oswald Chambers

There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip. ~ Alice Oswald

Humble yourself"
it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door
you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened. ~ Oswald Chambers

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth." ~ Oswald Chambers

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible. ~ Oswald Chambers

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. ~ Oswald Chambers

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. ~ Niklaus Wirth

Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential! ~ Oswald J. Smith

How many people have you made homesick for God? ~ Oswald Chambers

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. ~ Oswald Chambers

Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his ~ Oswald Chambers

God's grace produces men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not pampered, spoiled weaklings. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to live the worthy and excellent life of a disciple of Jesus in the realities of life. And it is always necessary for us to make an effort to live a life of worth and excellence. ~ Oswald Chambers

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. ~ Oswald Chambers

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. ~ Oswald Spengler