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

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

James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and …

- 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

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

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

Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to bear the consequences of yo…

- 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