"The clearest evidence that God's grace is at work in our hearts is that we do not get into panics."

--- Oswald Chambers, "Christian Disciplines" ---

"One thing we are realizing today, is that to the majority of us, civilized life is an elaborate way of doing without God. We have not been living life hid with Christ in God; we have been living in the abundance of the things which we possess. When they are shaken, terror, panic, and mental imbecility have laid hold of people who are normally very strong-minded and disdainful with regard to the phase of truth, but the shattering of the pillars of their refuge has come. Thank God , He still leaves His mighty, winning, wooing Spirit with us."

--- Oswald Chambers, "Christian Disciplines" ---

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me."

King David (Psalms 51:10 - 11)


"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

Apostle Paul (Romans 12:2)

When Skidmore found himself in a mental cul de sac, emptied by his role of continually giving the truth out to others, he shared his dilemma with Chambers.

What do you read?" Oswald asked.
"Only the Bible and books directly associated with it," Skidmore told him.
"That's the trouble," Chambers replied. "You have allowed part of your brain to stagnate for want of use."
Within a few minutes, Oswald had scribbled out a list of more than fifty books -- philosophical, psychological, and theological, dealing with every phase of current thought.

In a follow-up letter to Skidmore, Oswald said: "My strong advice to you is to soak, soak, soak in philosophy and psychology, until you know more of these subjects than ever you need consciously to think. It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought over evangelical theology to such a sorry plight.

"When people refer to a man as 'a man of one book,' meaning the Bible, he is generally found to be a man of multitudinous books, which simply isolates the one Book to its proper grandeur. The man who reads only the Bible does not, as a rule, know it or human life."

--- Excerpt from "Abandoned To God" by David McCasland ... biography of Oswald Chambers

"Christian Psychology is based on the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, not on the knowledge of ourselves. It is not the study of human nature analyzed and expounded, but the study of the new life that is born in us through the Redemption of our Lord, and the only Standard of that new life is our Lord Himself; He is formed in us by regeneration (Galatians 1:15--16)."

-- Oswald Chambers, "The Psychology of Redemption" ---