F.F. Bruce Quotes

       F.F. Bruce
       1910-1990
      
       Frederick Fyvie Bruce was a Biblical scholar, and one of the founders of the modern evangelical understanding of the Bible. His work New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? is considered a classic in the discipline of Christian apologetics.
      
       Bruce was a distinguished scholar on the life and ministry of Paul the Apostle, and wrote several studies the best known of which is Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free. He also wrote commentaries on several biblical books including Romans, Acts of the Apostles, 1 and 2 Corinthians, The Gospel and Epistles of John, and the Epistle to the Hebrews.
      
       He was honoured with two scholarly works by his colleagues and former students, one to mark his sixtieth and the other to mark his seventieth birthday. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and served as President of the Society for Old Testament Study, and also as President of the Society for New Testament Study. He is one of a handful of scholars thus recognised by his peers in both fields.

God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.     Topics: Blessings     Source: Hard Sayings of Jesus The best way to destroy an enemy is to turn him into a friend.     Topics: Enemies God is the archetypal Father; all other fatherhood is a more or less imperfect copy of his perfect fatherhood.|The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology     Topics: God, Fathers The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.     Topics: God Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a question of the Holy Spirit's producing His fruit in the life, reproducing those graces which were seen in perfection in the life of Christ.     Topics: Holiness Those who have been justified are now being sanctified; those who have no experience of present sanctification have no reason to suppose they have been justified.     Topics: Justification, Sanctification     Source: Romans - Tyndale New Testament Commentaries Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.     Topics: Love, The Heart     Source: Paul - Apostle of the Heart Set Free, Eerdmans Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.     Topics: Prayer, Attitude     Source: Hard Sayings of Jesus Any part of the human body can only be properly explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.     Topics: The Bible Paul's claim [was] that the message he preached was the authentic gospel of Christ. It is this: two things on which Paul pre-eminently insisted - that salvation was provided by God's grace and that faith was the means by which men appropriated it.     Topics: The Gospel     Source: Paul - Apostle of the Heart Set Free