Jerry Bridges Quotes
The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.
Quotes to Explore
-
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
-
Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
-
The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
-
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
-
If you fire people, you fire customers.
-
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
-
A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
-
Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
-
'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
-
I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
-
'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
-
I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
-
All Die Antwoord music, on a weird level, is like relationship music.
-
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
-
With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
-
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
-
Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
-
Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
-
I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.
-
The time of our production had absolutely nothing to do with politics or tactics.
-
I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?
-
We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.
-
The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.
