Quotes by Colin S. Smith

About Colin S. Smith:

Colin S. Smith is a United States evangelical pastor and author. Smith is currently the Senior Pastor of The Orchard Evangelical Free Church in Illinois, where he has been since 1996. The Orchard Evangelical Free Church has four campus locations: Arlington Heights, Barrington, Itasca, and Marengo.
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Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in.

Colin S. Smith

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

Colin S. Smith

He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.

Colin S. Smith

I am so glad that Jesus does not say, “Practice more spiritual disciplines.” He says, “Come to me…and I will give you rest.

Colin S. Smith

Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.

Colin S. Smith

When your heart is gripped by the love of God poured out in the cross, and when you see the extent of that love in the propitiation by which Christ became the sacrifice for your sin, bearing wrath and entering hell for you, and when you are convinced...

Colin S. Smith

Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.

Colin S. Smith

Early on in the Bible story, we will discover the devil taking on the form of an animal. At the center of the Bible story, we will find God taking on the form of a man. The Son of God is the image of God, and so when He took flesh, it was in the form...

Colin S. Smith

The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s people who had been saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.

Colin S. Smith

There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible. The flesh will tell you that God is against you, that you have gone too far and that He is no longer interested in you. But faith defies the...

Colin S. Smith

Author Bio

  • NameColin S. Smith
  • DescriptionBritish theologian
  • BornApril 27, 1958