Oswald Chambers Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• 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 begins to teach us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heartbreak, God, Disappointment

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

• No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

• Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Prayer, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.15, Discovery House

• To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, World, Midst

• We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Home, Heart

• We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Pain, People

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

• We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Son, Men

• Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, Causes, Human Life

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

• If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, Exaltation, Alive

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

• Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Religious, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.425, Discovery House

• If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Religious, Clouds

• Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Deception, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

• Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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