Paul Washer Quotes

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

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

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

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#5. When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ.

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#6. What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What can be done by your feeble arms!? ANSWER ME! He can take down the iron curtain in a day, He CAN convert a nation in an hour. Call upon Him, believe Him.

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#7. What's the will of God for my life? You don't need to know the will of God in your life, you need to know the God of your life!

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.

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#11. 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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#12. "But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.

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#13. 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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#14. Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?

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#15. 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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#16. God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.

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#21. The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.

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#25. Can you honestly tell me that your great desire is to be holy? Can you honestly tell me your great desire is to not be like the world, but to be like Jesus Christ? Because if you cannot, you should be afraid. Those who love the world do not have the love of the Father (1 John 2:15).

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#26. When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.

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#41. Prior to the reign of the godly King Josiah, the law of God had been lost in the temple for many years. Has the same thing occurred among us? Has the evangel been lost among evangelicals?

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

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

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#45. 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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#46. 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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#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. Although all believers are subject to many failings and can fall before the smallest temptation, their determination to continue in the faith and their gradual and progressive sanctification are great evidences of salvation and provide a solid ground for assurance. 1

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#49. Look to the fields white unto harvest; pray for the fields; prepare for the fields; go to the fields or support those who go.

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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.

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

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#56. Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.

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#57. In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

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#58. I don't want revival ... I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.

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#59. The mark of a man of God is God upon the man,

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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.

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#65. How can you learn unconditional love if you're married to a woman who meets all your conditions?

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#66. Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.

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#67. God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God

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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what's right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?

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#74. A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.

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#75. 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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#76. Everywhere ... everyone you meet ... is a potential brother or sister in CHRIST.

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

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#78. It [salvation] is not this flu shot mentality of an invitation of the Gospel.

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

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#80. The goal of the Christian life is the pursuit of an intimate knowledge of God that leads to a greater estimation of His worth, a greater satisfaction and joy in His person, and a greater giving of oneself for His glory. As

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#81. 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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#82. I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.

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#83. People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

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#84. Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable?

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

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#87. We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.

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#88. The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.

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

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#90. Regeneration VS Decisionism

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

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#92. Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.

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#93. We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns! Just because someone says they are of the Church or they are Christian, doesn't make it so.

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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all.

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