Quotes from Oswald J. Smith

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.

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

The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.

If God is going to use us for His honor and glory, if His power is going to rest upon us, if He is going to bless our soul-winning ministry, then our lives must be places absolutely at His disposal.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

The mission of the church is missions.

If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

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

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

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.