Paul Washer Quotes

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Souls cannot be saved without exertion.

I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the 'sacrifice unto the Lord... of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving 'away all [our] sins' in order to 'know God' (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him.

In very large measure each of us holds the key to the blessings of the Almighty upon us. If we wish the blessing, we must pay the price.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not turn him from his purpose of helping her.

All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.