Quotes from Stanley J. Grenz

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

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.

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

of "entire *sanctification," that is, that a Christian's life of purity takes place in two stages: through initial sanctification at *conversion and through a second event of sanctification later in the Christian's life (often called "the second blessing" or "entire sanctification") during which the Christian is freed from the bonds of the sinful nature, even though the believer continues to live in an imperfect body and an imperfect world.

John Locke, rejecting a central thesis of Cartesian philosophy, argued that the mind was a tabula rasa, an empty vessel devoid of any innate ideas. As a result, it is passive in the knowing process. It simply receives "impressions" from the external world through the senses and then formulates ideas from the impressions it has gathered.