Paul Washer Salvation Quotes & Sayings

Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That's why He's not going to let it fail. — Paul Washer

A sinner is justified and reconciled with God the moment he truly believes in the person and atoning work of Christ. However, the evidence that he truly believed and was genuinely converted in that moment is that he goes on believing and confessing all the days of his life. This is not to say that the true believer will be immune to doubts, free from failure, or unhindered in his growth to maturity. However, it does mean that the God who began a good work in him will continue perfecting that work until the final day.7 Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone.8 However, the evidence of saving faith is a genuine and enduring confession of the lordship of Jesus Christ throughout the believer's life. — Paul David Washer

One of the greatest crimes committed by this present Christian generation is its neglect of the gospel, and it is from this neglect that all our other maladies spring forth. The lost world is not so much gospel hardened as it is gospel ignorant because many of those who proclaim the gospel are also ignorant of its most basic truths. The essential themes that make up the very core of the gospel - the justice of God, the radical depravity of man, the blood atonement, the nature of true conversion, and the biblical basis of assurance - are absent from too many pulpits. Churches reduce the gospel message to a few creedal statements, teach that conversion is a mere human decision, and pronounce assurance of salvation over anyone who prays the sinner's prayer. — Paul David Washer

Again, the moment a person calls on the Lord he is saved. But the evidence is not that one time in their life they were sincere when they prayed a prayer. The evidence of their salvation is ... is there genuine repentance? Is there faith? And do both those evangelical graces continue on in their life and grow? — Paul Washer

As a rich man sees no reason for rejoicing in a meager gift of bread until a turn of events leaves him impoverished, so the sinner finds no joy in salvation until the horrid nature of his sin is revealed and he sees himself as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. — Paul David Washer

The secret of happiness is freedom. — Thucydides

"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way. — Paul Washer

If you have made the good profession, if you claimed to have passed through the gate, if you have received baptism in a public declaration of your faith, and you begin to walk-it doesn't matter how long it appears you're walking in that path-if you step off that path and there's no discipline and you continue on that path, you can have no assurance whatsoever of your salvation. And it is not that you lost your salvation, it's that you're showing now that you never had it. If we would only preach these truths — Paul Washer

The proof or validation of genuine conversion is that the one who professes faith in Christ perseveres in that faith and grows in sanctification throughout the full course of his life. If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted. — Paul David Washer

It [salvation] is not this flu shot mentality of an invitation of the Gospel. — Paul Washer

Once you add value, you get paid — Tim Gordon

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers. — Paul Washer

You go up to the devil and ask if he knows he's a sinner and he'll say, "Well, yes I am! And a mighty fine one at that!" — Paul Washer

The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?" — Paul Washer

Although all believers are subject to many failings and can fall before the smallest temptation, their determination to continue in the faith and their gradual and progressive sanctification are great evidences of salvation and provide a solid ground for assurance. 1 — Paul David Washer

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. — Paul Washer

CSR can help business reach the goals of social justice and economic prosperity by creating welfare for a broad range of social groups, beyond the corporations and their shareholders. — Howard R. Bowen

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen. — Paul Washer

In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation. — Paul Washer

Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is. — Paul Washer

If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves. — Paul Washer

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon. — Gordon Lightfoot

Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people! ~ — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The question is not, "Do you know you are a sinner?" the question is this, "As you have heard me preach the Gospel, has God so worked in your life that the sin you once loved you now hate?" — Paul Washer

If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life. — Mardy Grothe

Any honest evaluation of contemporary evangelicalism will acknowledge that there are many people walking the streets and sitting in pews who have "obtained like precious faith with us" as the demons (2 Peter 1:1).11 They know something of the person and work of Christ, and they will make something of a confession when it is convenient. However, there is little evidence of an ongoing reality of the saving work of Christ in their lives. Their hope of eternal salvation is founded upon a decision they made long ago, which they believed was sincere, to "accept Christ" by means of a simple prayer. Ministers of the gospel who should have known better confirmed their hope. Like demons, they are lost. Yet, unlike demons, they do not know it. — Paul David Washer

Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe. — Paul Washer

A man is saved only by faith ... only by faith. — Paul Washer

In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus. — Paul Washer

The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ. — Paul Washer

Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law. — Benjamin Franklin

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own. — Fulton J. Sheen