Oswald J. Smith

Eternity Meant Everything – Oswald J. Smith

In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God. … To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come.

– Oswald J. Smith –

August 11, 2015

We read in the biographies of our forefathers, who were most successful in winning souls, that they prayed for hours in private. The question therefore arises, can we get the same results without following their example?

– Oswald J. Smith –

June 24, 2015

We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.

– Oswald J. Smith –

June 23, 2015

The mission of the church is missions.

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June 22, 2015

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

– Oswald J. Smith –

June 21, 2015

No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.

– Oswald J. Smith –

January 7, 2014

People take salvation today in such a cold, formal, matter-of-fact, business-like sort of way, that it appears as though they are doing God an honor in condescending to receive His offer of Redemption. Their eyes are dry, their sense of sin absent; nor is there any sign of penitence and contrition … But oh, if there were conviction! if they came with hearts bowed down, yea! broken and contrite, came with the cry of the guilt-laden soul: “God be merciful to me a sinner!”—came trembling with the burning life and death question of the Philippian jailor: “What must I do to be saved ?”—what converts they would be!

– Oswald J. Smith –

July 28, 2014

Oh my friends, we are loaded down with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing the world and winning the lost, is almost entirely neglected!

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