Paul Washer Quotes

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

It is enough to be responsible for ensuring that our people have the opportunity to graze in the rich grass of God's nutritious word. Beyond that, we must trust the word to take it's effect. It will work faster in some people than in others. the spiritual body grows and metabolizes food at different rates much like the natural body does.

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.

Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

We will not know Him, until we become like him.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.