Quotes from Jerry Bridges

we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.

He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else…. 'For in him we live and move and have our being

We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.

Under God, however, all things are without exception fully controlled—despite all appearances to the contrary.

Nothing is too large or small to escape God's governing hand. The spider building its web in the corner and Napoleon marching his army across Europe are both under God's control.

This is what faith is -trusting in Jesus Christ alone as one's Savior.

All fancied sanctification which does not arise wholly from the blood of the cross is nothing better than Pharisaism. If we would be holy, we must get to the cross, and dwell there; else, notwithstanding all our labour, diligence, fasting, praying and good works, we shall be yet void of real sanctification, destitute of those humble, gracious tempers which accompany a clear view of the cross.

The sinner does not need more grace than the saint, nor does the immature and undisciplined believer need more than the godly, zealous missionary. We all need the same amount of grace because the "currency" of our good works is debased and worthless before God.

victory is a byproduct of obedience.

Randomness, luck, chance, fate. This is modern man's answer to the age-old question, "Why?

Seventeenth-century deism constructed a God who created a universe and then walked away to leave it running according to its natural laws and man's devices. Many people today are practical deists.

While it is certainly true that God's love for us does not protect us from pain and sorrow, it is also true that all occasions of pain and sorrow are under the absolute control of God.