Quotes from Jerry Bridges
Holiness requires continual effort on our part and continual nourishing and strengthening by the Spirit.
- Jerry Bridges
No one can act outside of God's sovereign will or against it. Centuries ago, Augustine said, "Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen: he either permits it to happen, or he brings it about himself."
- Jerry Bridges
All my labors are marred by sin and imperfection. As I think of every act I have ever done for God, I can only cry out, 'Oh, God, forgive the iniquity of my holy things.'"
- Jerry Bridges
It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).
- Jerry Bridges
Inner conflict and turmoil often result in conflict with others, so we must achieve inner peace to effectively pursue peace with others.
- Jerry Bridges
This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.
- Jerry Bridges
We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.
- Jerry Bridges
If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we must always keep the gospel of God's forgiveness through Christ before us.
- Jerry Bridges
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
- Jerry Bridges
We cannot separate trust in God from the fear of God. We will trust Him only to the extent that we genuinely stand in awe of Him.
- Jerry Bridges
But the holiness of Jesus was more than simply the absence of actual sin. It was also a perfect conformity to the will of His Father.
- Jerry Bridges
Christ's death was the result of God's grace; grace is not the result of Christ's death.
- Jerry Bridges