Top 120 Paul Washer Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Paul Washer

2. “If Jesus Christ isn’t strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don’t know Him at all.”

— Paul Washer

3. “There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.”

— Paul Washer

4. “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.”

— Paul Washer

5. “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.”

— Paul Washer

6. “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.”

— Paul Washer

7. “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?”

— Paul Washer

8. “Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don’t want God to be there when they get there.”

— Paul Washer

9. “People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan.”

— Paul Washer

10. “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.”

— Paul Washer

11. “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!”

— Paul Washer

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

— Paul Washer

13. “God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.”

— Paul Washer

14. “Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.”

— Paul Washer

15. “Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.”

— Paul Washer

16. “Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life – tell them who God is.”

— Paul Washer

17. “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!”

— Paul Washer

18. “We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.”

— Paul Washer

19. “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?”

— Paul Washer

20. “It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.”

— Paul Washer

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

— Paul Washer

22. “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?””

— Paul Washer

23. “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.”

— Paul Washer

24. “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.”

— Paul Washer

25. “The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.”

— Paul Washer

26. “Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.”

— Paul Washer

27. “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.”

— Paul Washer

28. “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.”

— Paul Washer

29. “Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?”

— Paul Washer

30. “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.”

— Paul Washer

31. “If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.”

— Paul Washer

32. “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.”

— Paul Washer

33. “We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God’s revelation to men.”

— Paul Washer

34. “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!”

— Paul Washer

35. “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.”

— Paul Washer

36. “The question is not, “Do you want to go to heaven?” The question is, “Do you want God?””

— Paul Washer

37. “If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority of evangelicals. You’re going to be opposed.”

— Paul Washer

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

— Paul Washer

39. “It’s absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ.”

— Paul Washer

40. “How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions?”

— Paul Washer

41. “American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.”

— Paul Washer

42. “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.”

— Paul Washer

43. “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.”

— Paul Washer

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

— Paul Washer

45. “A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God.”

— Paul Washer

46. “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.”

— Paul Washer

47. “Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.”

— Paul Washer

48. “To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.”

— Paul Washer

49. “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!”

— Paul Washer

50. “Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.”

— Paul Washer