Oswald J. Smith
Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.Collection: Christian
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.Collection: Christian Inspirational
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Doe
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...Collection: Prayer
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!Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Opportunity
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!Collection: Prayer
The heart of the human problem, is the problem of the human heart.Collection: Heart
The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Adversity
The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.Collection: Home
The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the worldCollection: Beautiful
No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.Collection: Christian
The mission of the church is missions.Collection: Christian Inspirational
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.Collection: Heart
The only generation that can reach this generation is our generation.Collection: Our Generation
Let me say that it is not a question of us getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.Collection: Spirit
If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.Collection: Christian
I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.Collection: Live Life
He who would preach powerfully must pray effectively.Collection: Praying
You must go or send a substitute.Collection: Missionary
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.Collection: Mean
Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?Collection: Missionary
I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.Collection: Men
There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.Collection: Prayer
Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.Collection: Pay
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.Collection: Winning
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.Collection: Cities
The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.Collection: Church