40 Quotes by Oswald J. Smith

A divided heart can never bring complete satisfaction. The man of mingled interests will seldom make a success of anything. If he would succeed in business he must give the major portion of his time and the best of his thought to his business.... The very same is true of the man who would be used of God, only to a far greater degree. The work alone must claim his whole attention. He has no room for other things.

Only those who spend much time in HIs presence will ever become like Him.

To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.

It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ.

The Bible distinguishes between "having" the Holy Spirit, which is true of all believers, and being "filled" with the Holy Spirit, which is true of very few.

God can accomplish more through one message in the fulness of the Spirit than through hundreds given in the energy of the flesh.

The fulness of the Spirit is not a question of our getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

The three representative men of the Bible, the natural, the carnal, and the spiritual - Which are you? Are you living in Egypt, the world and home of the natural man, or in the wilderness, the abode of the carnal? ... Are you already through the wilderness, and dwelling in Canaan, the land of the spiritual?

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women (Acts 5:14)- So not only was there Holy Ghost boldness and Holy Ghost power and Holy Ghost conviction, but also Holy Ghost conversions.