Paul Washer Quotes

God's desire is that we excel.

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not that we lack the resources to do things, not that we lack the models, the programs, and the plans, but that we lack conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

They are the elect of God, his best and most useful servants, whose lives are devoted to the improvement of their rational faculties

I think it would be a welcome reminder to every American that we can pray a good deal more at home. We can attend our churches with a good deal more fidelity.

The pleasures of moral purity are available to those who fancy themselves a small-church militant in an unconverted world.

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.

Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

I know me, and I know my heart. I know what the Lord expects. I know what a Christian's supposed to act like, but you can't act it.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.