Jerry Bridges Quotes

We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

Jerry Bridges

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• Gospel
• Guilt
• Believers
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• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It's healthy to have interests besides books.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Healthy
  • Besides

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Own
  • Run
  • Soviet

• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • May
  • Change
  • Better

• I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Always

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Better

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Family
  • Yourself

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Money
  • Social
  • Rumors

• The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

  

  Wale
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Look

• They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Today
  • Sky
  • Innocent

• To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Love
  • Consolation

• I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Friend
  • Crying
  • Dennis

• Andrea De Cesaris is the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Winning
  • Racing

• Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ...God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• ...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Head
  • Breaking
  • Shovel

• The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Life
  • Kings
  • Suits

• We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Lifetime
  • Gospel
  • Guilt