Jerry Bridges Quotes
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
Three means by which God assures us that we do have eternal life: 1. The promises of His Word, 2. The witness of the Spirit in our hearts, 3. The transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.
The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.
Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.
Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.
God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.
Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.
If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.
The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.
Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.
God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.
God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.
God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.
Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.
We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.
Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.
Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.
Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.
In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.
Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.
How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.
We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.
As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.
Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.
Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
