Bruce K. Waltke > Quotes

“Do you ever think about all the knowledge we pour into our brains and how soon they will turn into mush in the grave? I think about it.”
― Bruce Waltke

“To put it another way, the Bible is about God bringing glory upon himself by restoring Paradise after humanity lost it through a loss of faith in God that led to rebellion against his rule.”
― Bruce K. Waltke, An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach

“If this is a straightforward historical account, God created evening, morning, and days without luminaries and then created luminaries in order to effect them.83 Are we really to conclude that the division occurs without the dividers? It seems reasonable to assume that the narrator has offered a dischronologized presentation of the events in order to emphasize a theological point. God is not dependent on the luminaries.”
― Bruce K. Waltke, Genesis: A Commentary

“Standing in the deep, black well of his guilt David looked up and saw stars of God’s grace that those who stand in the noonday sunlight of self-righteousness never see.”
― Bruce K. Waltke, The Dance Between God and Humanity: Reading the Bible Today as the People of God

“This in-breaking of God’s rule involves battling against spiritual adversaries in heavenly places and political, social, and religious powers on earth and destroying them in his righteous judgment while saving his elect.”
― Bruce K. Waltke, An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach

“Later Bernard of Clairvaux, following on Origen’s “bridal mysticism,” affirms in a sermon on the Song of Songs that Christ appears three times for the believer: in his Incarnation, in his final or “second coming,” and in our daily opening the Scriptures.”
― Bruce K. Waltke, The Psalms as Christian Worship: An Historical Commentary