Explore Quotes by Oswald J. Smith

The only generation that can reach this generation is our generation.

He who would preach powerfully must pray effectively.

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 _x000D_ experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are _x000D_ satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time _x000D_ among themselves are far away from God. Real _x000D_ spirituality always has an outcome.

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!

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.

The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.

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...

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.

Let me say that it is not a question of us getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

You must go or send a substitute.

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

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

The mission of the church is missions.

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