Quotes from Jerry Bridges

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.

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.

Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.

Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.

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.

In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

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.

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.

Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

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.

Christ exhausted the cup of God's wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.

We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.

God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.

God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.