Oswald J. Smith Quotes

Enjoy the top 35 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Oswald J. Smith.

“I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision ... God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready ...”
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“I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it.”

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“We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.”

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“The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.”

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“You must go or send a substitute.”

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The mission of the church is missions.

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“God can accomplish more through one message in the fulness of the Spirit than through hundreds given in the energy of the flesh.”

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“You can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead.”

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No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.

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The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

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“The fulness of the Spirit is not a question of our getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.”

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“The three representative men of the Bible, the natural, the carnal, and the spiritual - Which are you? Are you living in Egypt, the world and home of the natural man, or in the wilderness, the abode of the carnal? ... Are you already through the wilderness, and dwelling in Canaan, the land of the spiritual?”

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“Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?”

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“There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.”

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“If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God.”

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“And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women (Acts 5:14)- So not only was there Holy Ghost boldness and Holy Ghost power and Holy Ghost conviction, but also Holy Ghost conversions.”

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“And they continued steadfastly (Acts 2:42) - That is to say, they did not backslide. The real reason there are so many backsliders is because there are so many who have never had a forward slide to Jesus Christ.”

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“I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.”

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“Power in Service - The carnal man can never be used in spiritual service. There is so much of the self life about him that God cannot gain control. The Spirit-filled life is necessary for fruitful Christian service.”

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“Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!”

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Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

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“Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.”

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“It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false
experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are
satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time
among themselves are far away from God. Real
spirituality always has an outcome.”

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“The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.”

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“The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.”

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“God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him ... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.”

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“Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!”