Jerry Bridges Quotes
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Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
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Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself.
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Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
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Obedience is the pathway to holiness.
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Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
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The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
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God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.
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Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.
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We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.
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Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.
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The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.
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As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
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God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we honor God by the way we respond to our circumstances.
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It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent.
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God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
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Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.
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It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
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We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.
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We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
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If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
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I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.
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There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.
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Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
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All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.