Grudem Wayne Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Wayne Grudem

#4. I want to touch you and kiss you, frequently, and I want you
" he shifted on his feet as though steadying himself then his hand reached out; he stepped closer and he cupped my cheek in his palm, "I want you to touch me.

Penny Reid

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Satan was the originator of sin

Wayne Grudem

#8. You have heard me say many times that I want strong leaders who feel free to express their opinions.

Jeffrey Lurie

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.

Julie Bowen

#14. 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

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

Wayne Grudem

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

Wayne Grudem

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

Wayne Grudem

#18. I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I am one of the few who didn't study 'Lord of the Flies.'

Eliza Taylor

#19. 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

#20. I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

Groucho Marx

#21. It's curling ribbon, but you don't have to curl it. You don't have to do everything the ribbon tells you to do. Don't live your life like that.

Dan Bergstein

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

Wayne Grudem

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

Wayne A. Grudem

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Wayne Grudem

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

Wayne Grudem

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Wayne Grudem

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

Wayne Grudem

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

Wayne Grudem