110+ Paul Washer Quotes On Marriage, Salvation And Prayer

Paul Washer is an American Christian evangelist and missionary. He is the founder of HeartCry Missionary Society, which supports indigenous missionary work in Asia, Africa, and South America. Washer is known for his passionate sermons, which emphasize the holiness of God, the depravity of man, and the need for repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Paul Washer on marriage, salvation, prayer.

Top 10 Paul Washer Quotes

1. The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.
2. 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!
3. People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan
4. All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?
5. Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.
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. The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.
8. Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.
9. 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!
10. 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 Short Quotes

• The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.
• Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.
• The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.
• Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
• The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
• I don't want revival...I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.
• Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.
• Everywhere......everyone you meet....is a potential brother or sister in CHRIST.
• A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.
• The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.

Paul Washer Quotes About Salvation

When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ. — Paul Washer

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

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

Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is? — Paul Washer

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

Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church. — Paul Washer

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

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

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

The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ. — Paul Washer

Paul Washer Quotes About Prayer

How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! — Paul Washer

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

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

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

Paul Washer Quotes About Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing. — Paul Washer

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

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

How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions? — Paul Washer

Paul Washer Quotes About Church

When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of unconverted church members. — Paul Washer

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

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

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

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

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity. — Paul Washer

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

You mark my words, and it won’t be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from you, and most of the evangelical church goes totally apostate, and little groups are left to be berated, THEN you will see that Christ is enough. — Paul Washer

I believe alot of churches in America are not churches. — Paul Washer

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

Paul Washer Quotes About Evangelical

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

Prior to the reign of the godly King Josiah, the law of God had been lost in the temple for many years. Has the same thing occurred among us? Has the evangel been lost among evangelicals? — Paul Washer

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

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers. — Paul Washer

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. — Paul Washer

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

Paul Washer Famous Quotes And Sayings

We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead. Such things are the work of God's Spirit. Men are brought to faith only through the supernatural working of God, and He has promised to work-not through human wisdom or intellectual expertise, but through the preaching of Christ crucified and resurrected from the dead! — Paul Washer

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

You may say, 'God doesn't hate anybody. God is love.' No, my friend. You need to understand something. Jesus Christ taught, the prophets taught, the apostles taught this: that apart from the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord the only thing left for you is the wrath, the fierce anger of God because of your rebellion and your sin. — Paul Washer

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

We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end; and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again. We've traded regeneration for decisionism. — Paul Washer

Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do not want him. And so God sends them the teachers that they themselves desire. — Paul Washer

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

It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture. — Paul Washer

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

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God. — Paul Washer

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

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

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

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

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

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

If following Jesus Christ doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.' — Paul Washer

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

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

This Christianity is not a cultural thing. It is not something that should be just a small part of your life; it is not something that you do on Sunday... Christianity is not about you being just like the world all the time and then coming to church on Sunday. If that is your Christianity... you are not Christian. — Paul Washer

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

The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; he is the way, and all other ways are no way at all... We live in an age of humanism - over the last several decades, man has fought to purge God from his conscience and culture. He has managed to make himself the center of all things. — Paul Washer

Anytime your banner becomes anything other than Jesus Christ you ought to be afraid of Hell. If your banner is “I'm a Calvinist”, if your banner is “I'm a homeschooler”, if your banner is this, that, or anything else, if you're rallying under any other name than Jesus Christ; you're in danger. You are in danger! — Paul Washer

Entering in the narrow gate is allowing Him to define your life, and not in general terms. See, there's your problem. 'Oh, Jesus is everything to me, and Jesus is Lord.' Okay, specifically though, explain to me what that means: what has it cost you, how have you changed your life from the course the rest of the world is walking in? — Paul Washer

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

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

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

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

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

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

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience. — Paul Washer

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

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

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. — Paul Washer

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. — Paul Washer

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

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

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

You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost! — Paul Washer

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

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

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

The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed. — Paul Washer

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. — Paul Washer

Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there. — Paul Washer

How can you learn unconditional love if you’re married to a woman who meets all your conditions? — Paul Washer

Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail. — Paul Washer

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

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

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

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

Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent. — Paul Washer

The question is not whether you would like to pray this prayer and ask Jesus to come into your heart - after all, you know, the handle to your heart is on the inside and if you do not open it Jesus cannot come in. My friend, Jesus is Lord of your heart and if He wants to come in, He will kick the door down. — Paul Washer

A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God — Paul Washer

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

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

Radical Christians are not people who wear Christian t-shirts. Radical Christians are those who bear fruit of the Holy Spirit...A little boy, Andrew, a Muslim shot him five times through the stomach and left him on a sidewalk simply because he said, 'I am so afraid, but I can not deny Jesus Christ! Please don't kill me! But I will not deny Him!' He died in a pool of blood, and you talk about being a radical Christian because you wear a t-shirt! — Paul Washer

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

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

Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others. — Paul Washer

Life Lessons by Paul Washer

1. Paul Washer emphasizes the importance of living a life that is devoted to God and His Word. He encourages us to be diligent in our study of the Bible and to be willing to sacrifice our own desires for the sake of serving God.
2. He also encourages us to be mindful of our own sinfulness and to be humble in our approach to God and to others. He teaches us to be patient and to trust in God's promises.
3. Lastly, Paul Washer reminds us to be bold in our faith and to never give up in our pursuit of righteousness, even in the face of adversity.