clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over...

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He...

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His...

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination...

Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given...

your god may be your little Christian habit – the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship...

When our Lord said to the disciples, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19), His reference was not to the skilled angler, but to those who use the drag-net–something which...

Don’t forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

for My sake.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

toys,” but as our Father.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright...

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, ‘Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,’ etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder...

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal – the utterly mean grubby things; and when we...

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

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship...

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is...

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to “go out” in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus....

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we...

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not “a little bit of love,”...

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.

The “show business,” which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord’s conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we...

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is...

Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the...

No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict...

As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let...

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

Beware of anything that would tarnish God’s mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.

Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray...

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.