Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?
Interpretation
This quote questions the importance of sharing a message multiple times with those already informed when many are still uninformed.
Oswald J. Smith highlights the urgency and responsibility of spreading important messages, such as the Gospel, to those who have yet to hear them. The quote suggests that we should prioritize reaching those who are unaware over reiterating in front of those already knowledgeable, emphasizing the need for action and outreach in the pursuit of sharing valuable teachings.
In practice
During a church sermon to encourage evangelism.
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.
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.
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.
The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind. Then we don't have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
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