Paul Washer Quotes

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

I was about 14 when I became a Christian. I had been going to youth group, and I'd heard the Gospel preached, and then suddenly it all started to click. God opened my eyes to see Jesus for who He really was. After I trusted Christ, the Lord changed my entire perspective on everything.

Salvation is by repentance and faith, and if you have truly believed unto salvation, you have been regenerated, which means you have become a new creature, and you are going to live a different life. And so works do not result in salvation.

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.

The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Christians are made, not born.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.

We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.

It was always very clear to me that God was sovereign in salvation.

I preach salvation by grace through faith alone. I preach for the repentance of sin.

One of the things that I just kind of became very enthusiastic about, and wanted to learn more about it, is how God saves.

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.