Oswald J. Smith Quotes & Sayings

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. — Oswald J. Smith

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! — Oswald J. Smith

We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world. — Oswald J. Smith

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. — Oswald J. Smith

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? — Oswald J. Smith

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. — Oswald J. Smith

Only those who spend much time in HIs presence will ever become like Him. — Oswald J. Smith

In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they
could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by
the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to
save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that
nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God ... To them
eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence.
They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them,
they were doomed for all time to come. — Oswald J. Smith

Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price. — Oswald J. Smith

The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home. — Oswald J. Smith

The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world. — Oswald J. Smith

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. — Oswald J. Smith

You can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead. — Oswald J. Smith

This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears. — Oswald J. Smith

We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. — Oswald J. Smith

This, then is to be our vision. Not the duplicating of existing missionary agencies; rather we are to work in places still untouched. "Unoccupied areas," "where Christ has not been named," "the regions beyond," "farther, still farther into the night," "the neglected fields." These are our watch- words, this our glorious mission.2. — Oswald J. Smith

Our work is to preach the gospel and we must not be sidetracked. — Oswald J. Smith

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world — Oswald J. Smith

God can accomplish more through one message in the fulness of the Spirit than through hundreds given in the energy of the flesh. — Oswald J. Smith

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once? — Oswald J. Smith

I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give. — Oswald J. Smith

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize. — 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 ... — Oswald J. Smith

If God is going to use us for His honor and glory, if His power is going to rest upon us, if He is going to bless our soul-winning ministry, then our lives must be places absolutely at His disposal. — Oswald J. Smith

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. — Oswald J. Smith

He who would preach powerfully must pray effectively. — Oswald J. Smith

You must go or send a substitute. — Oswald J. Smith

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. — Oswald J. Smith

The mission of the church is missions. — Oswald J. Smith

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. — Oswald J. Smith

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! — Oswald J. Smith

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. — Oswald J. Smith

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

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. — Oswald J. Smith

There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer. — Oswald J. Smith

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. — Oswald J. Smith

It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ. — Oswald J. Smith

To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy. — Oswald J. Smith

If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God. — Oswald J. Smith