Stanley J. Grenz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living.
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According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.
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We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.
-- Stanley J. Grenz
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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
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As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
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All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
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A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
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A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.
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