Oswald Chambers

A Christian worker must never make this plea-"if only I were somewhere else" The only test that the worker is Christ's witness is that he never becomes mean from contact with mean people any more than he becomes sinful with contact with sinful people. (Mean refers to ordinary, common or low)

The worker chosen by God has to believe what God wishes him to believe, though it cost agony in the process; the worker who chooses to work for God may believe what he likes. It is the latter class who exploit the Bible.
pg 3

Of our own strength and Gods:
When I say I am too weak it means I am too strong; and when ever I say "I can't" it means "I won't"...
It is His work in me He is counting worthy, not my work for Him.
The overcoming referred to in the book of Revelation is not the personal overcoming of difficulties but the overcoming of the very life of God in us while we stand resolutely true to Him.
pg4
Religiosity
Beware of the piety that is not stamped by the life of god, but by the type of religious experience. Be absolutely and fiercely godly in your life, but never be pious. A "pi" person does not take God seriously, he only takes himself seriously, and one tremendous worship of his life is his experience.pg5

The Christian worker must be sent; he must not elect to go. Nowadays that is the last thing thought of; it is a determination on the part of the individual-"This is something I can do, and I am going to do it." Beware of demanding that people go into work, it is a craze; the majority of saved souls are not fit to feed themselves yet...The only way to be sent is to let God lift us right out of any sense of fitness in ourselves and place us where He will. The man whose work tells for God is the one who not only realizes what God has done for him but who realizes his own utter unfitness and overwhelming unsuitability-the impossibility of God ever calling me...Before God can use us as workers He has to bring us to a place of entire poverty, where we shall have no doubt as to where we are, "here I am, absolutely no good!" Then God can send us, but not until then. We put hinderances in the way of God's working by trying to do things for Him. The impatience of modern life has so crept into Christian work that we will not settle down before God and find out what He wants us to do. pg 8,9

Abandon
Abandon to the love of Christ is the only thing that  bears fruit. Personal holiness my easily step over into  sanctified Pharisaism, but abandon to the love of God will always leave the impression of the holiness and the power of God. pg 10
Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.

The Cost of Discipleship
The Cross is the pain involved in doing the will of God.
Our cross is something that comes with the particular relationship of a disciple of Jesus Christ, it is the evidence that we have denied the right to ourselves. pg 16
Paul did not understand the Cross in order that he might receive the life of God; but by understanding the Cross, he recieved the life. Study the Cross for no other sake than God's sake, and you will be holy without knowing it.  pg18

Never allow in yourself of in others the phrase "I can't"; it is unconscious blasphemy...Every element of self-reliance must be slain by the power of God. The people who say "I can't" are those who have a remnant of self-reliance left; a true saint never says "I can't", because it never occurs to him that he can!
pg19

The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers: (Includes CD-Rom) (OSWALD CHAMBERS LIBRARY)