Paul Washer Quotes

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

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.

I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

I have been told that I misrepresent being a Christian. And that has been soul-crushing.

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.