Quotes about Redemption
But where sin abounded, grace superabounded.
- Jerry Bridges
Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.
- Jerry Bridges
Many people erroneously think that God can just forgive our sins because He is a loving God. Nothing could be further from the truth. The cross speaks to us not only about our sin but about God's holiness.
- Jerry Bridges
Whatever our particular calamity or adversity may be, we may be sure that our Father has a loving purpose in it.
- Jerry Bridges
It is frequently asserted in the Scriptures that God uses the sinful actions of men to accomplish His purposes.
- Jerry Bridges
our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.
- Jerry Bridges
Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.
- Jerry Bridges
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Jerry Bridges
Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.
- Jerry Bridges
The atonement was God's extending favor to people who deserved not favor but wrath. The atonement was God's bridging the awful "Grand Canyon" of sin to reach people who were in rebellion against Him. And He did this at infinite cost to Himself by sending Jesus to die in our place.
- Jerry Bridges
God still holds us accountable for the very sins that He uses to accomplish His purpose.
- Jerry Bridges
We cannot deal with the power of sin unless we have first dealt with its guilt. And we deal with it at the cross.
- Jerry Bridges