4 Quotes & Sayings By Bruce L Shelley

Bruce L. Shelley was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1936. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. After serving in the United States Air Force, he worked for an accounting firm and did not begin writing until after he had retired from the military Read more

He has lived in various states of residence for most of his life, but currently resides in Texas with his wife of forty years and their three children.

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If we see some admirable work of human art, we are at once eager to investigate the nature, the manner, the end of its production; and the contemplation of the works of God stirs us with an incomparably greater longing to learn the principles, the method, the purpose of creation. This desire, this passion, has without doubt been implanted in us by God. And as the eye seeks light, as our body craves food, so our mind is impressed with the . natural desire to know the truth of God and the causes of what we observe." --Origen(185-254) . Bruce L. Shelley
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Church historians often ask, ‘Is the church a movement or an institution?' . I think it is both. I believe the people of God in history live in a tension between an ideal--the universal communion of saints--and the specific--the particular people in a definite time and place. The church’s mission in time calls for institutions: special rules, special leaders, special places. But when institutions themselves obstruct the spread of the gospel rather than advancing it, then movements of renewal arise to return to the church’s basic mission in the world. . Bruce L. Shelley
Christianity is the only major religion to have at its...
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Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God. Bruce L. Shelley