God nowhere tells to give up things for the sake of giving them up…give them up for…the only thing worth having–viz. life with Him.
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (NY: Dodd, 1935), 8.
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (NY: Dodd, 1935), 18.
If you are depending upon anything but Him [God], you will never know when He is gone. – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (NY: Dodd, 1935), 20.
Get into the habit of saying, “Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (NY: Dodd, 1935), 30.
…Sanctification…an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (NY: Dodd, 1935), 39.
Oswald Chambers was born this date, 7/24/1874 at Aberdeen, Scotland. He taught briefly at God’s Bible School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He spent the last two years of his life serving as a YMCA secretary among soldiers in Egypt, during WWI. Chamber’s wife, Biddy, was an expert in shorthand and was able to catch many of his talks at Zeitoun Camp (outside Cairo) in print. His My Utmost for His Highest is one of the most popular devotionals in print. He died in Egypt 11/15/1917.
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