F. F. Bruce Quotes

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

To live is to express oneself freely

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.

Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Be like water, my friend.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.