Jerry Bridges Quotes

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

Jerry Bridges

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• Love Of God

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• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Work
  • Great
  • Liberty

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Future
  • Present
  • Risk

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Man
  • Thanks

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Rock
  • Better
  • Same

• Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Up
  • World
  • Beautiful

• At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Will
  • Return
  • Resurrection

• And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

  

  Feist
  • Music
  • Joy
  • Positive

• I don't get claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Get
  • Claustrophobic

• Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Why
  • Nature

• If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Faith
  • Clouds

• Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Father
  • Disease
  • Fathers

• Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

  

  Susannah McCorkle
  • Songs
  • Despair
  • Get Through

• When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Feels
  • Gone
  • Empty

• There's a love that never changes, no matter what you've done.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Love
  • Never
  • Changes

• It was one of the great fen sunsets, flaming across the sky from horizon to horizon, burning up the earth beneath it to nothingness. But it could not subdue the Cathedral. Isaac was looking straight up at the three great towers and the flaming clouds were streaming out from them like banners. Yet there was no wind, and no movement in the sky except just above the Rollo tower where two small white clouds were in gentle flight. They soared and sank again, infinitely graceful and lovely, the golden light touching their wings and breasts. Then they soared once more and were lost in the light. They were two white swans.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Clouds
  • Wings
  • Horizon

• I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.

  

  CC Sabathia
  • Dad
  • Sports
  • Son

• Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Grace
  • Rebellion
  • Love Of God