1. “How can you learn unconditional love if you’re married to a woman who meets all your conditions?” – Paul Washer
2. “How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions?” – Paul Washer
3. “There is not a godly remnant in the true church; that true church is the godly remnant.” – Paul Washer
4. “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.” – Paul Washer
5. “God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.” – Paul Washer
6. “Men and women who are used by God, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are passionately weak, they are violently desperate.” – Paul Washer
7. “Many preachers today now present the gospel as a series of concise, convenient statements that, while inherently true, are often left unexplained and hollowed of their true evangelical meaning and power.” – Paul Washer
8. “Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.” – Paul Washer
9. “Why is Jesus’ saying, “I am!” so important? Because, you’re not!” – Paul Washer
10. “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
11. “We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.” – Paul Washer
12. “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
13. “When will I learn?” – Paul Washer
14. “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
15. “Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others.” – Paul Washer
16. “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
17. “I don’t want revival.” – Paul Washer
18. “When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they’re living in the world, they won’t listen.” – Paul Washer
19. “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.” – Paul Washer
20. “If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.” – Paul Washer
21. “It seems that the evangelical community no longer views conversion primarily as a supernatural work of God wrought through the miracle of the new birth.” – Paul Washer
22. “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.” – Paul Washer
23. “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
24. “I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.” – Paul Washer
25. “Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention.” – Paul Washer
26. “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
27. “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.” – Paul Washer
28. “If Jesus Christ isn’t strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don’t know Him at all.” – Paul Washer
29. “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
30. “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?” – Paul Washer
31. “You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!” – Paul Washer
32. “The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it’s a life being lived out.” – Paul Washer
33. “You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Choose wisely what you do today!” – Paul Washer
34. “A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.” – Paul Washer
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.” – Paul Washer
36. “A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God.” – Paul Washer
37. “Very few have heard that without holiness or sanctification no one will see the Lord.” – Paul Washer
38. “The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.” – Paul Washer
39. “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
40. “Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.” – Paul Washer
41. “The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.” – Paul Washer
42. “In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.” – Paul Washer
43. “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
44. “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
45. “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
46. “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.” – Paul Washer
47. “Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner’s heart, but on the door of a wayward church.” – Paul Washer
48. “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
49. “I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer.” – Paul Washer
50. “Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.” – Paul Washer
51. “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
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.” – Paul Washer
53. “Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life – tell them who God is.” – Paul Washer
54. “Everywhere……everyone you meet….is a potential brother or sister in CHRIST.” – Paul Washer
55. “You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?” – Paul Washer
56. “The former work is accomplished through the cross. The latter work is accomplished through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, who radically transforms or recreates each member of God’s new covenant people.” – Paul Washer
57. “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
58. “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
59. “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.” – Paul Washer
60. “There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.” – Paul Washer
61. “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
62. “Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe.” – Paul Washer
63. “First, whose company do you most enjoy? Do you seek fellowship with other believers and delight in conversations about Christ? Or do you prefer the company of the world and rarely speak about the things of God?” – Paul Washer
64. “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
65. “To the wind with what the world thinks about us.” – Paul Washer
66. “Unless you cut yourself off from the arm of the flesh, you will never see God work.” – Paul Washer
67. “What is holiness? The end product of holiness is to love God in the same way He loves Himself; 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
68. “If someone is truly converted, he or she will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting him or her in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.” – Paul Washer
69. “All my weak days have a common cause.” – Paul Washer
70. “So many pastors are trying to keep together a bunch of wicked people, while a little flock in the midst of them is starving to death and made to go in directions they don’t want to go. They are made to go along with the carnal majority!” – Paul Washer
71. “People tell me judge not lest ye be judged.” – Paul Washer
72. “Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.” – Paul Washer
73. “There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.” – Paul Washer
74. “It is a comfort to know that we will not remain as we are, and yet it is sometimes frightening to think of the fires through which we must pass on the narrow way in order to be rid of what God will not tolerate in us.” – Paul Washer
75. “Persecution has never hurt the church, only prosperity.” – Paul Washer
76. “The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it’s coming for you.” – Paul Washer
77. “And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.” – 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. “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
80. “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
81. “You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!” – Paul Washer
82. “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
83. “We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.” – Paul Washer
84. “I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like Satan.” – Paul Washer
85. “I want Christ.” – Paul Washer
86. “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” – Paul Washer
87. “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
88. “Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don’t want God to be there when they get there.” – Paul Washer
89. “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
90. “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.” – Paul Washer
91. “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
92. “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!” – Paul Washer
93. “There is not a godly remnant in the true church; that true church is the godly remnant.” – Paul Washer