Oswald Chambers

Who was Oswald Chambers?

Oswald Chambers was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known as the author of the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.

Famous Quotes:

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
• Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
• Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
• A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
• We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
• We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.
• Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.