Jerry Bridges Quotes
The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.
When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.
Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.
Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.
We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.
We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.
The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.
God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.
True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.
The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.
Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent
Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.
Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.
All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.
The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.
If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.
May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.
We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.
Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.
A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.
But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~