Oswald Chambers

“Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined pr...”

“Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.”

“Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to unders...”

“If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know...”

“You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you wi...”

“When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line...”

“God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.”

“Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.”

“We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.”

“Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.”

“The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.”

“God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.”

“One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.”

“Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.”

“Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.”

“Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.”

“Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.”

“Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.”

“Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.”

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”