Oswald J. Smith > Quotes

“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 Smith

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

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

“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, The Enduement of Power: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

“You must go or send a substitute.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.”
― 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

“The mission of the church is missions.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“You can’t take it with you, but you can send it on ahead.”
― 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 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 , The Enduement of Power: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

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

“There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.”
― Oswald J. Smith, The Revival We Need

“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, The Enduement of Power: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

“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, The Enduement of Power: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

“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, The Enduement of Power: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

“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, The Enduement of Power: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

“Only those who spend much time in HIs presence will ever become like Him.”
― Oswald J. Smith, Man God Uses

“The Bible distinguishes between "having" the Holy Spirit, which is true of all believers, and being "filled" with the Holy Spirit, which is true of very few.”
― Oswald J. Smith, The Enduement of Power: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

“Oh, my friends, we are loaded down with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing the world and winning the lost, is almost entirely neglected!”-Oswald J. Smith”
― 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, The Challenge of Missions

“It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ.”
― Oswald J. Smith, Man God Uses

“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, Man God Uses

“A divided heart can never bring complete satisfaction. The man of mingled interests will seldom make a success of anything. If he would succeed in business he must give the major portion of his time and the best of his thought to his business.... The very same is true of the man who would be used of God, only to a far greater degree. The work alone must claim his whole attention. He has no room for other things.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“¿Saben cuántos idiomas hay en este mundo? Lo diré. En el momento existen por lo menos 2.974 lenguas principales. ¿Saben cuántos de estos idiomas poseen la Palabra de Dios, o alguna porción? En la hora actual, solamente 1.185. ¿Cuántas, pues, quedan sin una simple porción del libro de Dios? Quedan 1.789. Pensemos en ello. Después de casi dos mil años de trabajo misionero por todo el mundo, vemos que restan 1.789 idiomas en los que la Palabra de Dios jamás ha sido traducida. ¿Y qué nos dice eso? «La fe viene por el oír y el oír por la Palabra de Dios». «¿Cómo creerán a aquel de quien no han oído? ¿Y cómo oirán sin haber quien les predique?» (Romanos 10.17, 14).”
― Oswald J. Smith, Pasión por las almas

“So many of us are localized in our outlook. We see only our own community, our own village or town, and we never see beyond. There are those who think only of their own church and have no interest in what others are doing. Then there are some who have a larger vision. They see an entire city or province and they are ready to give their money and to work for its evangelization. But they, too, are local in their outlook, for they never see beyond the boundaries of the city or province in which they live. Then there are those who have a still larger vision. They see an entire country and they are ready to work for its evangelization. But even they are local in their outlook, for they never see beyond the boundaries of the country in which they live. There are those, however, who have a still larger vision. They see a continent and they are ready to do all they can for the evangelization of their continent. Yet even they are local in their outlook for they never see beyond the boundaries of their continent. Then there are those who see an entire world. They see Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America and the islands of the seas. They have God’s vision and that is the vision He wants us to have, a world vision.”
― Oswald J. Smith, The Challenge of Missions