Wayne Grudem Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

Satan was the originator of sin

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

Everything [Jesus] taught and did was a summons to the humility and love that purge self-exaltation out of leadership and servility out of submission.