My Utmost for His Highest Quotes

“If you are up against the question of relinquishing, go through the crisis, relinquish al , and God wil make you fit for al that He requires of you.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language

“To be born from above of the Spirit of God means that we must let go before we lay hold, and in the first stages it is the relinquishing of al pretence. What Our Lord wants us to present to Him is not goodness, nor honesty, nor endeavour, but real solid sin; that is al He can take from us.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language

“the Spirit of God wil show us what further there is to relinquish. There wil have to be the relinquishing of my claim to my right to myself in every phase. Am I wil ing to relinquish my hold on al I possess, my hold on my affections, and on everything, and to be identified with the death of Jesus Christ?”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language

“Undaunted radiance is not built on anything passing, but on the love of God that nothing can alter. The experiences of life, terrible or monotonous, are impotent to touch the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language

“The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language

“Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language

“The surf that distresses the ordinary swimmer produces in the surf-rider the super-joy of going clean through it. Apply that to our own circumstances, these very things-tribulation, distress, persecution, produce in us the super-joy; they are not things to fight. We are more than conquerors through Him in al these things, not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. The saint never knows the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language

“The bedrock of our Christian faith is the unmerited, fathomless marvel of the love of God exhibited on the Cross of Calvary, a love we never can and never shal merit.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language