Quotes from Jerry Bridges

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.

As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.

We did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.