Oswald Chambers Quotes about Suffering

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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.

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

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

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".

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