There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that greatness comes not from individuals but from their faith in a higher power.
Paul Washer's quote highlights the idea that no person can claim true greatness on their own; instead, any perceived greatness is a reflection of their relationship with a compassionate and forgiving God. It suggests that all humans are inherently weak and flawed, and it is through faith and reliance on divine mercy that one can find strength and purpose.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to illustrate the importance of humility before God.
We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.
Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.
The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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