There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer. Oswald J. Smith More Quotes by Oswald J. Smith More Quotes From Oswald J. Smith We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. Oswald J. Smith ministrychristian-inspirationalmissionary 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. Oswald J. Smith realwinningreligion 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... Oswald J. Smith prayergivingmen 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! Oswald J. Smith compassionsouljesus Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. Oswald J. Smith biblicalchristianreligion The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages. Oswald J. Smith doeworldneeds 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 Oswald J. Smith realspiritualpeople 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. Oswald J. Smith churchmissionaryopportunity Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential! Oswald J. Smith importantprayersleep 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 J. Smith adversitysorrowmay Our work is to preach the gospel and we must not be sidetracked. Oswald J. Smith The mission of the church is missions. Oswald J. Smith christian-inspirationalchurchmissionary The church that does not evangelize will fossilize. Oswald J. Smith churchdoereligion The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world Oswald J. Smith churchchristianbeautiful No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once. Oswald J. Smith evangelismmissionarychristian We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world. Oswald J. Smith wantheartworld In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they Oswald J. Smith homemenfall The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home. Oswald J. Smith shininglighthome The heart of the human problem, is the problem of the human heart. Oswald J. Smith problemhumansheart 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. Oswald J. Smith missionarymeanpeople
