Stanley Grenz Quotes & Sayings

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. — Immanuel Kant

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. — Stanley J. Grenz

Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever. — Frederick Lenz

Above all, the divine love is salvific: It seeks the lost, suffers with the afflicted, and redeems the fallen. — Stanley J. Grenz

I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism ... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work. — Russell Crowe

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

There are people who die and, with all due respect, you don't lose anything. But he was one of those that when they're gone you feel it. As if the whole world had become, from one day to the next, a little heavier. — Alessandro Baricco

Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does. — John Carpenter

Walk while you can. — Lailah Gifty Akita

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like. — Stanley J. Grenz

If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate. — Cory Doctorow

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos. — J.D. Salinger