Top 120 Paul Washer Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Paul Washer

53. “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.’”

— Paul Washer

54. “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.”

— Paul Washer

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

— Paul Washer

56. “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.”

— Paul Washer

57. “AMEN, let Him take it all! He’s worthy!”

— Paul Washer

58. “The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.”

— Paul Washer

59. “Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.”

— Paul Washer

60. “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.”

— Paul Washer

61. “What is holiness? The end product of what holiness is it’s to love God in the same way He loves Himself; it’s to esteem God as much as He esteems Himself, and to separate yourself unto that love, and to keep yourself in that love.”

— Paul Washer

62. “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?”

— Paul Washer

63. “You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?”

— Paul Washer

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

— Paul Washer

65. “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!”

— Paul Washer

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

— Paul Washer

67. “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.”

— Paul Washer

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.”

— Paul Washer

69. “He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.”

— Paul Washer

70. “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.”

— Paul Washer

71. “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.”

— Paul Washer

72. “Look to the fields white unto harvest; pray for the fields; prepare for the fields; go to the fields or support those who go.”

— Paul Washer

73. “I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you’ve got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you’ve got to have the power of God on your life.”

— Paul Washer

74. “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.”

— Paul Washer

75. “The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it’s coming for you.”

— Paul Washer

76. “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.”

— Paul Washer

77. “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.”

— Paul Washer

78. “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.”

— Paul Washer

79. “The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it’s a life being lived out.”

— Paul Washer

80. “Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe.”

— Paul Washer

81. “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.”

— Paul Washer

82. “The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America.”

— Paul Washer

83. “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.”

— Paul Washer

84. “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.”

— Paul Washer

85. “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.”

— Paul Washer

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

— Paul Washer

87. “Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner’s heart, but on the door of a wayward church.”

— Paul Washer

88. “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.”

— Paul Washer

89. “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.”

— Paul Washer

90. “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.”

— Paul Washer

91. “If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.”

— Paul Washer

92. “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?”

— Paul Washer

93. “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!”

— Paul Washer

94. “The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.”

— Paul Washer

95. “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?””

— Paul Washer

96. “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.”

— Paul Washer

97. “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.’”

— Paul Washer

98. “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.”

— Paul Washer

99. “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.”

— Paul Washer

100. “I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.”

— Paul Washer