Paul Washer Quotes

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.

...when we are loving, we can't sin.

Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.

Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.