There’s no sight like seeing the light from Calvary kiss a human face as it fills the heart with the assurance of Divine forgiveness.
– Gipsy Smith
The Cross | Assurance
The way to Jesus is not by Cambridge and Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare or the poets–It is over an old-fashioned hill called Calvary.
– Gipsy Smith
The Cross
You say they are skeptical where Jesus is concerned. I’ll tell you when they are skeptical–when they see the caricature of Jesus in you and me.
– Gipsy Smith
Examples
When the great end of the day comes, the greatest joy of all will be the joy of knowing you have tried to make somebody else’s life happy.
– Gipsy Smith
Friendship
I’m God’s messenger from the gypsy tent. And it’s the message that’s important, not the messenger.
– Gipsy Smith
Evangelism
I wonder what would happen if the preacher stopped in his sermon next Sunday morning and said, “Have you paid your debts this week?” “In what sort of a temper did you come down to breakfast this morning?
– Gipsy Smith
Preaching | Responsibility
If a man’s religion does not get into every detail of his life he may profess to be a saint, but he’s a fraud. Religion ought to permeate life and make it beautiful–as lovely as a breath of perfume from the garden of the Lord.
– Gipsy Smith
Religion
If I read my New Testament aright, and if I know God, and if I know humanity, and if I know Nature, then that is God’s program. God’s program is that the whole of life should be permeated with Christ.
– Gipsy Smith
Life
If young converts wish to maintain their religious life strong, fresh, and secure, they must throw the whole of themselves into it; they must hold nothing back.
– Gipsy Smith
Perseverance
We are not quarrelling over religions at the front–we are fighting and dying for the folks who are doing that at home.
– Gipsy Smith
Religion
This old world’s dying for the want of love. There are more people die for the want of a bit of it than with over much of it. Don’t stifle it–let it out.
– Gipsy Smith
Love
There are lots of people think you are not doing any spiritual work unless you are singing, “Come to Jesus.”
– Gipsy Smith
Piety