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.
– F.F. Bruce
Blessings
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.
– F.F. Bruce
Prayer | Attitude
The best way to destroy an enemy is to turn him into a friend.
– F.F. Bruce
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
– F.F. Bruce
God | Fathers
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.
– F.F. Bruce
The Gospel
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.
– F.F. Bruce
Love | The Heart
The soul’s deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.
– F.F. Bruce
God
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.
– F.F. Bruce
The Bible
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.
– F.F. Bruce
Justification | Sanctification
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.
– F.F. Bruce
Holiness