Jerry Bridges Quotes

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• Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

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  God, Bridges, Grace

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• Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God.

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  Important

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.106, Tyndale House

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• Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

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  Inspirational, Trust, Bible

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• Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.

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  Bored, Important, Dull

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.106, Tyndale House

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• The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

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  Prayer, Anxiety, Attention

  Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

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  Adversity, Soul, Promise

  Jerry Bridges, Gerald Bridges, Jack Kuhatschek (1989). “You Can Trust God”, Navpress Publishing Group

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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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  Feel Better, Issues, Grace

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.316, NavPress

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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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  Action, Gods Will, Accord

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.72, NavPress

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• God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

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  His Love, Sovereignty, Love Always

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.234, NavPress

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• It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

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  Doubt, Important, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.15, NavPress

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• We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.

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  Thinking, Ought

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.102, NavPress

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• Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

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  Heart, Godly, Contentment

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.84, NavPress

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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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  Adversity, Choices, Feelings

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.52, NavPress

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• As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

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  Christian, Character, Scripture

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.74, NavPress

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• God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

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  Desire, Doe, Needs

  Jerry Bridges (1990). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.

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  Needs, Realization, Merit

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.8, NavPress

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• Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

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  Christian, Character, Holiness

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• God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, "I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You" (Psm. 119:11).

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  Attitude, Heart, Mind

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.67, NavPress

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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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  Expression, Needs, Culture

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• Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

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  Forgiving, Serious, Weakness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.174, NavPress

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• In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.

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  Hate, Heart, Thinking

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• That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

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  Powerful, Suffering, Purpose

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.243, NavPress

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• 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.

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  Men, People, Events

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “31 Days toward Trusting God”, p.108, NavPress

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• So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking the time to walk with Him and develop a relationship with Him. This is impossible to do.

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  Christian, Character, Trying

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.12, NavPress

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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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  Attitude, Biblical, Love Is

  Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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