A longsuffering person will endure where others give up. He always thinks about how God has been longsuffering toward him, and he counts God's longsu…

- Johan Oscar Smith

If a person forges ahead in the light and yet has lost his care for the others, the purpose of the light is wasted. God does not give us light for it…

- Johan Oscar Smith

People could achieve much more if only they would put in more effort. You must take responsibility for your own life. Be conscious of how you use you…

- Johan Oscar Smith

God implants Spirit and zeal into our hearts in order to accomplish a work. When the work is done, a quiet rest remains. We do not have to push one a…

- Johan Oscar Smith

False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is the one that states that …

- Johan Oscar Smith

This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with nothing but…

- Johan Oscar Smith

Those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, but you can't do that at the foot of the cross. Those who pierced Him …

- Johan Oscar Smith

No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one rec…

- Johan Oscar Smith

An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by caus…

- Johan Oscar Smith