Jerry Bridges Quotes

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others.

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• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Courage
  • Sins

• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins
  • Forgiven

• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Lost
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins

• Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Sins
  • Martyrdom

• Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Stop
  • Eye
  • Sins

• I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Daily
  • Everyday

• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Sins
  • Flesh

• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Person
  • Influence

• The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

  

  James Cook
  • Sins
  • Repeat
  • Outcome

• I strongly condemn the death of innocent civilians in last night's attack against Gaza.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Death
  • Condemn
  • Innocent Civilians

• There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Persons
  • Sins
  • Sponge

• The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Bible
  • Sins
  • Fathers

• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Sins
  • Welfare

• Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Love Is
  • Treasure
  • Sins

• There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Responsible
  • Blame
  • Salvation

• The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Sins
  • Seven
  • Deadly

• May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Help
  • Recognize

• If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Sins
  • Proof
  • God's Love

• From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Die
  • Care
  • Tea

• I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

  

  Bob Matsui
  • United States
  • Mother And Father
  • Internment Camps

• May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Sins
  • Condemn