Frederick F. Bruce quote: "Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does not content himself with the denunciation of error, but finds the best defense against its insidious approaches in a closer adherence to the love of God and faith in Christ."

Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 The [Rom...
FREDERICK F. BRUCE

Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little ...
FREDERICK F. BRUCE

Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century However the gospel may be defended, it can...
FREDERICK F. BRUCE

One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE

Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE

The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
FREDERICK WISEMAN

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What s...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon myster...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, cripp...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

If there is no struggle there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones...
FREDERICK TENNYSON

"Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!'
ADMIRAL FREDERICK

The Third Fleet's sunken and damaged ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward ...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK

Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!
ADMIRAL FREDERICK

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are fo...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK

Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!
ADMIRAL FREDERICK

I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
ADMIRAL FREDERICK

There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by cir...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK

There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to de...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate a...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in larg...
FREDERICK SAUNDERS

Everybody prays whether you think of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when someth...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than t...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. Al...
FREDERICK SMITH

Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips ov...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE

The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things nee...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he ...
FREDERICK BAILES

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thun...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KEONIG

The key to your universe is that you can choose.
CARL FREDERICK

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to an...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, ...
FREDERICK TENNYSON

We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que...
FREDERICK KEONIG

I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ...
FREDERICK PERLS

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio...
FREDERICK POLLOCK

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thi...
FREDERICK TENNYSON

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
FREDERICK SMITH

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
FREDERICK SMITH

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a...
FREDERICK SODDY

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
FREDERICK SANGER

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am...
FREDERICK REINES

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advan...
FREDERICK SANGER

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo...
FREDERICK WEISEL

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
FREDERICK BUECHNER

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
FREDERICK LEBOYER

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
FREDERICK SODDY

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte...
FREDERICK SODDY

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl...
FREDERICK SANGER

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h...
FREDERICK SEITZ

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey...
FREDERICK SODDY

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now ...
FREDERICK TILNEY

The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we k...
FREDERICK FARRAR

Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES

Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, beari...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the...
FREDERICK WISEMAN

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever fail...
FREDERICK FARRAR

There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.

FREDERICK LOEWE

The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where w...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KOENIG

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They wash...
FREDERICK TENNYSON

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t...
PAULINE FREDERICK

When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.
JENNIFER FREDERICK

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world
FREDERICK SAUNDERS

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution tow...
FREDERICK SANGER

We cannot be certain right now how the events of last week will ultimately impact the U.S. and globa...
FREDERICK SMITH

I was so despondent, wondering what I am going to do, and then the minister herself called.
FREDERICK SMITH

Despite uncertainty related to Katrina and other economic conditions, we remain optimistic about glo...
FREDERICK SMITH

We're forecasting it will get better, but we'd like to see it get better faster,
FREDERICK SMITH

It's become increasingly difficult to find places with the proper size and other characteristics.
FREDERICK SMITH

In the near-term, there are economic concerns but overall we see continued improvements in the globa...
FREDERICK SMITH

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - an...
FREDERICK SMITH

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the f...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

We panicked a little bit after that spurt. We took some shots that were uncharacteristic of our team...
JIM FREDERICK

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous ser...
FREDERICK REINES

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
FREDERICK FORSYTH

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamen...
FREDERICK POLLOCK

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
FREDERICK SAUNDERS

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse h...
FREDERICK WISEMAN

They're all movies. I've always just done whatever interested me and this interested me. I never fel...
FREDERICK WISEMAN

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
FREDERICK WISEMAN

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the ch...
FREDERICK WISEMAN

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who...
FREDERICK REINES

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing...
FREDERICK REINES

(Gore) can clearly disagree, but the president has made his opinion quite clear on the NSA wiretaps ...
FREDERICK JONES

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why t...
FREDERICK SODDY

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
FREDERICK SODDY

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about hi...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
FREDERICK LEBOYER

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
FREDERICK SODDY

It's a smart strategic move for XM because they need to answer the Howard Stern question. It's not a...
FREDERICK MORAN

I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposit...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

FDX Corp. is benefiting from the accelerated move to fast-cycle production and distribution methods,...
FREDERICK SMITH

This strategic investment in the long-term growth of China will broaden and deepen our relationship ...
FREDERICK SMITH

Gary's leadership transformed FedEx Kinko's into a global network offering the industry's broadest r...
FREDERICK SMITH

\[Gore\] can clearly disagree, but the President has made his opinion quite clear on the NSA wiretap...
FREDERICK JONES

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
FREDERICK FORSYTH

We've been delighted at the outcomes of these events. We begin planning earlier and earlier each yea...
CAROLE FREDERICK

Go where your best prayers take you.
FREDERICK BUECHNER

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you ca...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually...
FREDERICK REINES

I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed mo...
FREDERICK SANGER

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts ...
FREDERICK POLLOCK

...I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ar...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to b...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for the...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the im...
FREDERICK SODDY

We are again pleased to have such a wonderful variety of food donations for this event. These establ...
CAROLE FREDERICK

You know to look around the cars, you know to look on the sidewalk, you look in the bushes. I did al...
VIRGINIA FREDERICK

Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does not content himself with the denunciation of error, but finds the best defense against its insidious approaches in a closer adherence to the love of God and faith in Christ.

Frederick F. Bruce

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