Paul Washer Quotes

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

I went to church. I found the light.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

Everywhere I go I find that people... both leaders and individuals... are asking one basic question, 'Is there any hope for the future?' My answer is the same, 'Yes, through Jesus Christ.'

He is not Brown any longer. He is an angel of light.

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

Without Christ there is no hope.

There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?