Jerry Bridges Quotes

Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.

Jerry Bridges

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• Disposal
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• There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Speak
  • Knowing
  • Observe

• We're not teaching the Bible to the point that is getting it into people's hearts. A lot of churches stop after presenting biblical principles.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Bible
  • Teaching
  • Hearts

• I'm ready for everything and I'm excited for the season. I feel it's our time. We have speedy guys, we have power guys and we have pitching.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Time
  • Power
  • Guys

• Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

  

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
  • Violence
  • Development
  • Corruption

• In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Light
  • Pride
  • Littles

• I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Trusted

• A certain red cardinal sounded like a little bottle being filled up, up, up with some clear liquid.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Filled
  • Bottle
  • Cardinal

• It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.

  

  Carlos Moya
  • Play
  • Years
  • Easy

• I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Collaboration
  • Adverse
  • U2

• The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Sentences
  • Narrative
  • Chemicals

• We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Purpose
  • Governs

• The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Senses
  • Governs
  • Bellies

• My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Things
  • Flourish
  • Adverse

• Man governs himself more by impulse than reason.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Reason
  • Impulse
  • Governs

• Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

  

  Gerd von Rundstedt
  • Factors
  • Adverse
  • Blocked

• He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.

  

  Gerhard Tersteegen
  • Draws
  • Destroys
  • Disposal

• I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn't satisfying me, things I was supposed to do for my career. I stopped and said, 'Let me get back to the basics.'

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Career
  • Satisfying
  • Get Back

• You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Why
  • Change
  • Same

• Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Governs
  • Adverse
  • Disposal