Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald ChambersRead
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of personal devotion and prayer in spiritual growth and service.
Oswald Chambers highlights that the true foundation for a strong spiritual life and effective service as a missionary lies in personal worship and devotion. This hidden, intimate relationship with God equips individuals with the strength and tools necessary to fulfill their calling and impact others positively. It suggests that the inner life of a believer is where the most significant transformation occurs, and from this place of deep worship, the outward ministry flows.
Themes
SpiritualityWorshipMissionaryPersonal GrowthDevotion
In practice
Example use cases
A pastor sharing this quote in a sermon about the importance of personal prayer.
More from Oswald Chambers
All quotes βNever make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Oswald ChambersRead
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
Oswald ChambersRead
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
Oswald ChambersRead
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
Oswald ChambersRead
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
Oswald ChambersRead
Similar quotes
We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.
Thomas S. MonsonRead
We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.
Thomas MertonRead
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
Philip YanceyRead
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul β by doing good for goodβs sake β that is spirituality. β
David O. MckayRead
Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.
T. D. JakesRead
It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.
Henri NouwenRead