Paul Washer Quotes

#1. American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.

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#2. Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do not want him. And so God sends them the teachers that they themselves desire.

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#3. This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of person? Or do you have new affections?

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#4. If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.

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#5. A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God

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#6. There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.

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#7. We as Americans are the wealthiest Christians who ever walked on the face of the earth. We are the most protected Christians that ever walked on the face of the earth, and yet we are the emptiest Christians who ever walked on the face of the earth.

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#8. The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.

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#9. You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today!

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#10. The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.

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#11. Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.

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#12. Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?

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#13. Jesus ... HIS sheep, they know His voice and they follow Him whether you disciple them or not!

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#14. The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to a greater degree. The evidence that you believed a long time ago is that you're still believing now and ever more believing in greater and greater degrees.

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#15. Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.

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#16. If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all.

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#17. You go up to the devil and ask if he knows he's a sinner and he'll say, "Well, yes I am! And a mighty fine one at that!"

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#18. When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors ... because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of
unconverted church members.

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#19. We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgeons but we don't want to pay the price they paid, and they paid the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved His word.

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#20. In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

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#21. If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don't even know the half of it.'

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#22. The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel

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#23. It's not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.

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#24. How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions?

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#25. The question is not, "Do you know you are a sinner?" the question is this, "As you have heard me preach the Gospel, has God so worked in your life that the sin you once loved you now hate?"

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#26. I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.

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#27. We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.

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#28. Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.

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#29. A man is saved only by faith ... only by faith.

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#30. Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others.

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#31. In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.

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#32. When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

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#33. To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.

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#34. If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.

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#35. The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.

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#36. Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.

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#37. The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

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#38. You ask me 'What's the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God's word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does.

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#39. Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That's why He's not going to let it fail.

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#40. Remember this: you must always be growing in the gospel and your knowledge of it. It is not Christianity 101, but Christianity from A to Z. You have not mastered the gospel, nor will you master it, but it will master you!

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#41. I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.

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#42. The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.

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#43. We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.

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#44. You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!

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#45. You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?

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#46. A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask.

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#47. This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, " ... as lost as a ball in tall grass."

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#48. The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.

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#49. So you walk up to this man sinner and you say, "God loves you and He has a wonderful plan for your life!" and he goes, "What? God loves me? That's fantastic. I LOVE ME, TOO! And He loves me more than I love me? Well, that's hard to imagine. I'll take a God like that. You got two of them?"

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#50. Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe.

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#51. Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

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#52. God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain

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#53. If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.

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#54. Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, 'They made a decision.'

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#55. When preachers teach biblically and clearly about the judgment of God and the dangers of hell, men begin to see that their greatest need is to be saved from eternal condemnation, and the more "practical" needs of this present age become trivial in comparison.

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#56. I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.

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#57. We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.

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#58. The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

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#59. Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

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#60. All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

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#61. The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

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#62. What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.

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#63. The person that I most admire is Jesus Christ. He is the only perfect Person. There is simply no comparison. The difference between Him and all other men is not merely quantitative, but qualitative. He is in a category all to Himself.

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#64. The moment when you take your first step through the gates of hell, the only thing you will hear is all of creation standing to its feet and applauding and praising God because God has rid the earth of you. That's how not good you are.

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#65. Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.

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#66. He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

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#67. Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

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#68. I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

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#69. Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

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#70. The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America.

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#71. If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

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#72. How many people do you know believe they're going to heaven because, they're not trusting so much in Christ as they are the sincerity of the decision they made a long time ago?

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#73. If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

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#74. If you're going to choose your friends, you better choose them well, because when you look at your friends, you're looking at a mirror reflection. You're looking at you; you are looking at you.

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#75. The problem is, even when we preach the Gospel correctly, then we go to this thing on how to invite men and it's not biblical or historical. We get them to jump through some evangelical hoops and say, "yes" to the appropriate questions and we pope-ishly announce them to be saved.

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#76. Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.

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#77. We must not adopt the world's view and then tweak it to make it Christian. We must draw a line in the sand and stand firm in the radical teachings of Christ and His gospel. We must preach the truth and be the examples of the truth we preach.

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#78. Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament?

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#79. You mark my words, and it won't be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from you, and most of the evangelical church goes totally apostate, and little groups are left to be berated, THEN you will see that Christ is enough.

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#80. The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

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#81. The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in!

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#82. We have forgotten how to blush

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#83. AMEN, let Him take it all! He's worthy!

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#84. A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.

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#85. We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.

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#86. If [following Jesus Christ] doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.'

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#87. To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

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#88. I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who regretted having spent too little!

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#89. We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.

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#90. The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.

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#91. Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.

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#92. The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.

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#93. Next, they'll say, "Do you want to go to heaven?" Have you ever had anybody say, "No, I'd rather go to hell." My friend, understand this, everyone wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

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#94. When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it's placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity!

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#95. The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.

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#96. Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.

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#97. The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.

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#98. The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.

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#99. The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"

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#100. It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.

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