Quotes from Jerry Bridges

The Scriptures never indicate that God is frustrated to any degree by our failure to act as we should.

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ROMANS 7:21

God still holds us accountable for the very sins that He uses to accomplish His purpose.

there is no conflict in the Bible between His sovereignty and our responsibility.

But be it ever so small in our own eyes, when we sin we also break God's law. And Scripture says, "Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it" (James 2:10). God's law is seamless, one complete whole. So when we break any of it, we break the whole law.

We are to look beyond our adversity to what God is doing in our lives and rejoice in the certainty that He is at work in us to cause us to grow.

That is, humility should be as much a part of us as the clothes we wear. We wouldn't think of appearing before other people without our clothes. And we shouldn't think of appearing before other people without deliberately clothing ourselves with an attitude of humility.

God's providence clearly affirms that we can trust God.

This does not mean our country should discharge all our military personnel and mothball our ships and tanks. It means we should not trust in them.

God not only created the universe but that He upholds and sustains it day by day, hour by hour.

God never has to agonize over a decision. He does not even have to deliberate within Himself or consult others outside of Himself. His wisdom is intuitive, infinite, and infallible: "His understanding has no limit" (Psalm 147:5).

Death has been swallowed up in victory'" (1 Corinthians 15:51-54).

the common life that believers have in Him. In the same manner, if believers are to share with one another

It is so easy for us to stand apart from the culture and do no more than express self-righteous judgmentalism toward it. But those of us who grieve deeply over our own sin will not do this. Instead we will mourn over the sins and wickedness of our nation and will pray most urgently that, just as we want God to be merciful to us, so we want Him to be merciful to our nation as a whole. This will be another expression of humility in action.

We cannot deal with the power of sin unless we have first dealt with its guilt. And we deal with it at the cross.

God sustains you and me: "He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.... `For in him we live and move and have our being"' (Acts 17:25,28). He supplies our daily food (see 2 Corinthians 9:10). Our times are in His hands (see Psalm 31:15). Every breath we breathe is a gift from God, every bite of food we eat is given to us from His hand, every day we live is determined by Him.

Details are important, and God is just as sovereign over the details as He is over the so-called "big picture.

When we discover we are weak in ourselves, we find we are strong in Christ.

So the Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, but our understanding of them is not. Rather, it is often conditioned by our previous understanding or biases.

the beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.

to see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.

Most of us are tempted, from time to time, to question God's love for

No one can harm you or jeopardize your future apart from the sovereign will of God.

Satan, whose very first act toward man was to question the goodness of God, will even plant the thought in our minds that God is up in heaven mocking us in our distress.