Paul David Washer is an American Protestant Christian evangelist who was born on September 11, 1961. Washer claims to have converted to Christianity while pursuing a law degree in oil and gas at the University of Texas at Austin. He relocated to Peru, where he spent ten years working as a missionary. While living in Peru in 1988, Washer established the HeartCry Missionary Society to assist native missionaries who were sharing their faith with members of their own cultures. The organization provided support to 238 missionary families in 41 nations as of 2017.
58 Paul Washer Quotes
- “People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan.”
2. “We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.”
3. “You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!”
4. “The Gospel does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to our life, but as our life.”
5. “There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.”
6. “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.”
7. “However, a person’s singular and sincere desire to save his own skin does not prove a work of conversion in his heart.”
8. “The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant.”
9. “There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.”
10. “We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.”
Paul Washer Quotes on Prayer and Life
11. “There is not a godly remnant in the true church; that true church is the godly remnant.”
12. “Effective ministry is hard, and it will cost you everything! And by the time you are an old man, you will be broken—but strong in the things of God!”
13. “You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!”
14. “Contemporary evangelicalism has been grossly affected by a “once saved always saved” teaching that argues for the possibility of salvation apart from sanctification.”
15. “Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.”
16. “When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?”
17. “Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.”
18. “The spirit of God will come down and raise the dead and He will get a people for Himself.”
19. “Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life – tell them who God is.”
20. “We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.”
Paul Washer Quotes on the Church
21. “God has only one religious institution: It is the Church. And our ultimate goal and the ultimate result of revival in this world will be the planting of biblical churches.”
22. “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.”
23. “Our greatest problem is that we lack conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.”
24. “The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it’s coming for you.”
25. “There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.”
26. “One of the greatest distinguishing marks of a false prophet is that he will always tell you what you want to hear.”
27. “The desire to be affirmed and appreciated is deadly venom to a man of God, yet it appears that many have been bitten.”
28. “Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.”
29. “The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it’s coming for you.”
30. “If the evidence for the aforementioned saving faith is for God.”
Paul Washer Quotes on Salvation
31. “God does not know who His elect are. Period.”
32. “What’s called the church today is nothing more than a bunch of unconverted church people with unconverted pastors.”
33. “The Gospel does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to our life, but as our life.”
34. “The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.”
35. “The person who professes faith in Christ and yet finds beauty and joy in the things that oppose the will of God should be concerned about the validity of his profession.”
36. “Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner’s heart, but on the door of a wayward church.”
37. “The false convert is unmoved by Christ’s teaching because he is unmoved by Christ’s person.”
38. “If the evidence is to be examined by no one at the end of anyone’s life, Paul Washer is blowing smoke out his hinder parts.”
39. “Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe.”
40. “However, the most frightening thing about many of the individuals and churches that identify with evangelicalism is not that they struggle against sin, but that they do not struggle at all.”
Positive Paul Washer Quotes
41. “The goal of the Christian life is the pursuit of an intimate knowledge of God that leads to a greater estimation of His worth.”
42. “How can you learn unconditional love if you’re married to a woman who meets all your conditions?”
43. “It is as real to him as the recovery of sight to the blind, the gift of hearing to the deaf, and the restoration of life to the dead.”
44. “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.”
45. “There is no way you can practice the presence of God if you do not spend much time in secret prayer.”
46. “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.”
47. “The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.”
48. “The validity of our confession of Jesus Christ’s lordship and of our conversion is evidenced by our obedience to the Father’s will.”
49. “Very few have heard that without holiness or sanctification no one will see the Lord.”
Thought-Provoking Paul Washer Quotes
50. “They are a new people who desire God and delight in His law, not because they come from better stock than the nation of Israel but because the Holy Spirit has recreated them.”
51. “One of the greatest crimes committed by this present Christian generation is its neglect of the gospel, and it is from this neglect that all our other maladies spring forth.”
52. “The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.”
54. “We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.”
55. “Christ warns us that there is a narrow path that “leads away” to eternal life and a broad path that “leads away” to eternal destruction.”
56. “God uses these false prophets to draw out the unbelieving and unregenerate from among His people so that their poison might not spring up and defile many.”
57. “There is a power of God for salvation. And it is the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
58. “We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.”
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