Quotes about Will
But rather that He works in His mysterious way through their wills to accomplish His purposes.
- Jerry Bridges
Your promotion, or lack of it, is in the hand of God. Your superiors are simply His agents to carry out His will.
- Jerry Bridges
The third truth to keep before us is that the Bible consistently portrays people as making real choices of their own will.
- Jerry Bridges
He (God) permits, for reasons known only to Himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits them to act contrary to His sovereign will.
- Jerry Bridges
Our duty, then, is to obey the "things revealed," that is, the will of God as revealed in Scripture for every area of life. Scripture
- Jerry Bridges
He will direct it according to His sovereign purpose for His glory and our good.
- Jerry Bridges
God sovereignly intervened in the hearts—the desires and wills—of the Egyptians to accomplish His purpose for the Israelites.
- Jerry Bridges
He so directs and controls all events and all actions of His creatures that they never act outside of His sovereign will.
- Jerry Bridges
Yet God does this in such a way that these people make their decisions and carry out their plans by their own free and voluntary choices.
- Jerry Bridges
Yet God controls the king's heart. The stubborn will of the most powerful monarch on earth is directed by God as easily as the farmer directs the flow of water in his irrigation canals.
- Jerry Bridges
No one can harm you or jeopardize your future apart from the sovereign will of God.
- Jerry Bridges
We can put this down as a bedrock truth: God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
- Jerry Bridges