Top 21 F.F. Bruce Quotes
#1. My doctrine of Scripture is based on my study of Scripture, not vice versa.
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#2. Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.
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#3. Conversation with a view to timely instruction will help to build up a strong Christian character and stimulate growth in grace.
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#4. The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?'
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#5. 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.
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#6. God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.
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#7. Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness of Christian writings, the historical character of Jesus Himself.
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#8. Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.
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#9. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.
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#13. 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.
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#14. The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice
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#15. There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
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#16. What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die.
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#17. The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.
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#18. An individual gospel might have been designed as the gospel for a particular community, but when it was included in a collection with other writings of the same genre, the individual writings were viewed as complementary one to another, each presenting a distinctive aspect of the ministry of Jesus.
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#19. The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
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#20. Even in its canonical form a biblical document may be better understood if account be taken of successive stages in its composition. There
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#21. Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.
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