“The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to hurt or offend. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in the service of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

“Master and Lord have little place in our vocabulary, we prefer the words Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer.”

— Oswald Chambers

“Our Lord never enforces obedience; He does not take means to make me do what He wants.”

— Oswald Chambers

“Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.”

— Oswald Chambers

“If we love a human being and do not love God, we demand of him every perfection and every rectitude, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; we are demanding of a human being that which he or she cannot give.”

— Oswald Chambers

“It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”

— Hebrews 11:8-10

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.”

— Hebrews 11:8

“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.”

— Hebrews 11:6

“We talk as if it were the most precarious thing to live the sanctified life; it is the most secure thing, because it has Almighty God in and behind it.”

— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

— Mark Twain

““The Church is to propose—relentlessly, boldly, persuasively, winsomely.” - Richard John Neuhaus @rofters”

“We are to be in the world but not of it; to be disconnected fundamentally, not externally.”

— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest

“God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”

— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest