Grudem Quotes

#1. Wayne Grudem, my friend and seminary professor, put it well: "God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places."19

James MacDonald

#2. The fact is men can't handle it. They can't take the heat when it gets ugly. Women, on the other hand, band together in the face of pain. They get strong. And then they get even.

Larry Brooks

#3. It is right that we long to be in the fellowship of God's people in which God's character is manifested, for when we delight in the godliness of God's people, we are ultimately delighting in God himself as we see his character evidenced in the lives of his people.

Wayne A. Grudem

#4. The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

Wayne Grudem

#5. It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

John Howard

#6. Once again, by incorrectly limiting the verses to a special situation, these people change the meaning of the words of Scripture. And in that way they undermine the authority of the Word of God.

Wayne A. Grudem

#7. It's hard to say why with some people you could talk all day and all night, while with others it's a struggle to find enough to say during a single course at dinner.

Victoria Clayton

#8. It is not true to say that God is unable to be understood, but it is true to say that he cannot be understood fully or exhaustively.

Wayne A. Grudem

#9. John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

Leonard Ravenhill

#10. In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

Wayne Grudem

#11. Satan was the originator of sin

Wayne Grudem

#12. With this ranking system, the more you play, the better off you are.

Pete Sampras

#13. I think that ultimately we will attain much more depth of understanding of Scripture when we are able to study it in the company of a great number of scholars who all begin with the conviction that the Bible is completely true and absolutely authoritative.

Wayne Grudem

#14. All sin is ultimately irrational. Though people persuade themselves that they have good reasons for sinning, when examined in the cold light of truth on the last day, it will be seen in every case that sin ultimately just does not make sense." Wayne g

Wayne A. Grudem

#15. Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

Peter Shaffer

#16. If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.

Wayne Grudem

#17. Groom yourself and your life like a shrub. Trim off the edges and you'll be stronger in the broken places. Embrace the new growth and blossom at the tips.

D'Andre Lampkin

#18. Do Christians in fact eagerly long for Christ's return? The more Christians are caught up in enjoying the good things of this life, and the more they neglect genuine Christian fellowship and their personal relationship with Christ, the less they will long for his return.

Wayne A. Grudem

#19. It is healthy for us spiritually when we settle in our hearts the fact that God deserves all honor and glory from his creation, and that it is right for him to seek this honor.

Wayne A. Grudem

#20. God's faithfulness means that God will always do what He said and fulfill what He has promised.

Wayne Grudem

#21. The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.

Wayne Grudem

#22. God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.

Wayne Grudem

#23. The person who would become a lifelong reader should stumble upon very rich stuff first, early, and often. It lived within, a most agreeable kind of haunting.

Gregory Maguire

#24. God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.

Wayne Grudem

#25. The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains all the words of God we need for salvation, for trusting him perfectly, and for obeying him perfectly.

Wayne Grudem

#26. God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God's revelation of himself.

Wayne Grudem

#27. The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin

Wayne Grudem

#28. Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

Wayne Grudem

#29. The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

Wayne Grudem

#30. God is the sum of all desirable qualities, and he possesses every quality that is truly desirable.

Wayne A. Grudem

#31. God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.

Wayne Grudem

#32. Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and earth collapse than abandon anyone who trusted in him.

Paul Of The Cross

#33. The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.

Wayne Grudem

#34. God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy.

Wayne Grudem

#35. Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

Wayne Grudem