Paul Washer
Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.Collection: Joy
We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.Collection: Mean
You mark my words: Whenever a cult attacks Christianity, the first place they're going to go is they're going to attack the deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; is that not true? They are going to attack His deity. Throughout 2000 years of Christian history, we have had to build walls to keep them out. We have had to fight, we have had to amass arms, we have had to do apologetics, we have had to do it all. It is our purpose and our responsibility to proclaim that Jesus Christ is God.Collection: Christian
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!Collection: Jesus
I don't want revival...I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Prayer
Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.Collection: Failing
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.Collection: Giving
He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.Collection: Honor
To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.Collection: Thinking
Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?Collection: Men
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.Collection: Teacher
Remember when you got into the word and it wasn’t because you had a sermon to prepare or you needed to learn some things or there were some doctrinal problems or you knew that to progress as a useful servant you had to continue on in the things of the word of God? Do you remember when you just got into the word because you wanted to hear something from God? You wanted to know something about Him. Do you remember when you just prayed because of Him? Is your heart burning for Him?Collection: Heart
[The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.Collection: Spiritual
The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.Collection: Heart
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?"Collection: Hate
When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?Collection: Morning
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?Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Christian
If you have made the good profession, if you claimed to have passed through the gate, if you have received baptism in a public declaration of your faith, and you begin to walk-it doesn't matter how long it appears you're walking in that path-if you step off that path and there's no discipline and you continue on that path, you can have no assurance whatsoever of your salvation. And it is not that you lost your salvation, it's that you're showing now that you never had it. If we would only preach these truthsCollection: Discipline
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write their name in the back of their Bible, and put the date and if the devil ever comes to them, they need to show him that. That is Roman superstition, it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. You see, we've turned the gospel into a flu-shot.Collection: Jesus
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!Collection: Prayer
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.'Collection: Devil
We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.Collection: Men
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?Collection: People
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.Collection: Prayer
There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Men
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Biblical
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.Collection: Hate
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."Collection: Country
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.Collection: Holiness
In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.Collection: Biblical
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.Collection: Southern
I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.Collection: Believe
The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.Collection: Problem
AMEN, let Him take it all! He’s worthy!Collection: Amen
When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.Collection: Trying
A man is saved only by faith ... only by faith.Collection: Men
"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.Collection: Way
It [salvation] is not this flu shot mentality of an invitation of the Gospel.Collection: Flu
The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.Collection: Ongoing
Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.Collection: Hurt
The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.Collection: People
How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions?Collection: Unconditional Love
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.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Christian