Quotes about Christ
The so-called laws of nature are nothing more than the physical expression of the steady will of Christ.
- Jerry Bridges
We've done nothing to earn His love and can do nothing to forfeit it. His love in Christ is eternal and unconditional. Nothing can separate us from His love, as the apostle Paul put it so eloquently. Do we really believe what Paul says to us here?
- Jerry Bridges
In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people."64
- Jerry Bridges
If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well? If we would fully enter into the fellowship of His sufferings, we must begin to see sin from His point of view.
- Jerry Bridges
Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
- Jerry Bridges
How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult?
- Jerry Bridges
To the degree that we live with an abiding sense of His love for us in Christ, to that degree will we love God with all our heart and soul and mind.
- Jerry Bridges
We have somehow gotten the idea that the abundant life Jesus promised in John 10:10 means an abundance of health, wealth, and happiness. The idea of suffering for the sake of Christ is foreign to us. We have substituted the pursuit of happiness for the pursuit of holiness. We hesitate to sacrifice even our material possessions for His cause, let alone sacrificing our lives or the lives of our children upon the altar of His service.
- Jerry Bridges
If we desire to experience the totality of fellowship with Christ, we must expect to experience the fellowship of His sufferings.
- Jerry Bridges
The universal testimony of those who have suffered for the sake of Christ and His church is that they have experienced a deep fellowship, an intimate communion with Him in the midst of their sufferings.
- Jerry Bridges
But we must be transformed more and more into the likeness of Christ. That is the purpose of discipline.
- Jerry Bridges
The only safe evidence that we are in Christ is a holy life.
- Jerry Bridges