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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.”
― Oswald J. Smith , The Enduement of Power: Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

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

“You must go or send a substitute.”
― 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

“The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.”
― 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 can’t take it with you, but you can send it on ahead.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.”
― Hudson Taylor

“You have one business on earth – to save souls.”
― John Wesley

“I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.”
― David Livingstone

“God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

“Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.”
― Robert C. Shannon

“To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

“We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.”
― John H. Groberg

“Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.”
― Hudson Taylor

“In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.”
― Smith Wigglesworth

“Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
― Smith Wigglesworth