Quotes from Paul Washer

Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.

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.

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.

There is a power of God for salvation. And it is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ will be saved. That is true.

Do Christians sin? Yes, absolutely. But can Christians live in a state of sin without discipline and without being brought back in obedience to their Father? Absolutely not.

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

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, he'll heal your body and fix every one of your problems, if you need that, you're lost.

If Jesus is not enough to motivate you to godly living, you don't know Jesus.

Let me just share with you something. Jesus makes this quite clear: there's never been a real teacher except One, and it's Christ. There's never been a real prophet: they're all types of One greater than themselves - Christ.

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.

The mark of spirituality is the fragrance of Christ in our lives and the fragrance of Christ in every aspect of who we are as a person.

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!

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.

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

It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.

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.

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

A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God

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

We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.

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.

The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.