The Love of God Quotes

“Jesus Christ was made broken bread and poured-out wine for us, and He expects us to be made broken bread and poured-out wine in His hands for others.”
― Oswald Chambers, The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God

“God showed to man that compliance with His dictates would ever mean eternal bliss and joy unspeakable and life and knowledge forevermore, but that ceasing to comply would mean loss of life with God and eternal death. That was in the world’s bright morning when the morning stars sang together and all creation leaped in joy, but the wild, wild desolation of sin, disobedience, pride, and selfish sinfulness entered and drove a great gulf between God’s children and Himself. But, as ever, love found a way. God came to us and for us, and we this day with chastened hearts, quivering lips, and glistening eyes, yet with love deep and strong in our hearts, say, afresh with deep adoration, God is love. If God exhibits such glorious love in His nature, what shall we say of the glories of the dispensation of His grace? That God would have walked this earth had sin never entered is very likely, yet sin did not refrain Him from graciously walking and revealing Himself in communion with men. No, still He came. But men were so blinded by sin that they saw Him not, they knew Him not, while He hewed a way back through the hard face of sin to the heavenly shores.”
― Oswald Chambers, The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God

“The knowledge of our own poverty brings us to the moral frontier where Jesus Christ works.”
― Oswald Chambers, The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God

“It is in the sphere of humiliation that we find our true worth to God, and that is where our faithfulness has to be manifested. Most of us can do things if we are always at the heroic pitch; but God wants us at the drab, commonplace pitch, where we live in the valley according to our personal relationship to Him. We can all be thrilled by appeals to do things in an ecstatic way, by moments of devotion, but that is never the work of God’s grace; it is the natural selfishness of our own hearts. We can all do the heroic thing, but can we live in the valley where there is nothing amazing, but mostly disaster, certainly humiliation, and emphatically everything drab and dull and common? That is where Jesus Christ lived most of His life. The reason we have to live in the valley is that the majority of people live there, and if we are to be of use to God in the world, we must be useful from God’s standpoint—not from our own standpoint or the standpoint of”
― Oswald Chambers, The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God