Quotes about Surrender
Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.
- Jerry Bridges
Paul acknowledged what we must acknowledge if we are to trust God. God's plan and His way of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.
- Jerry Bridges
The daily experience of Christ's love is linked to our obedience to Him. It is not that His love is conditioned on our obedience. That would be legalism. But our experience of His love is dependent upon our obedience.
- Jerry Bridges
For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.
- Jerry Bridges
Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.
- Jerry Bridges
God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He
- Jerry Bridges
Could I trust Him even if I didn't understand?
- Jerry Bridges
Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.
- Jerry Bridges
we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.
- Jerry Bridges
We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.
- 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 prayer of a Christian is not an attempt to force God's hand, but a humble acknowledgment of helplessness and dependence. When we are on our knees, we know that it is not we who control the world; it is not in our power, therefore, to supply our needs by our own independent efforts; every good thing that we desire for ourselves and for others must be sought from God, and will come, if it comes at all, as a gift from His hands.3
- Jerry Bridges