Top 215 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Washer - Page 4

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

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.

The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.

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

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!"

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.

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?

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?"

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

The problem is, even when we preach the Gospel correctly, then we go to this thing on how to invite men and it's not biblical or historical. We get them to jump through some evangelical hoops and say, "yes" to the appropriate questions and we pope-ishly announce them to be saved.

The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.

Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others.

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?

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.

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

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.

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."

I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.

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

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

You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!

You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?

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.

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.

We have forgotten how to blush

A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.

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

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

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.

AMEN, let Him take it all! He’s worthy!

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

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.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

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.