Quotes by Jerry Bridges
Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) — Autor und Referent bei The Navigators · Reformiert-evangelikal (Presbyterian Church in America) · USA
Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) war ein US-amerikanischer Autor, Referent und langjähriger Mitarbeiter der christlichen Jüngerschaftsorganisation The Navigators. Bekannt durch Bücher wie „Streben nach Heiligkeit“, stand er für eine reformiert geprägte Theologie, die das Zusammenspiel von menschlicher Verantwortung und der bedingungslosen Gnade Gottes betont. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet er eine alltagstaugliche und seelsorgerlich sensible Orientierung, um theologische Grundwahrheiten praktisch im Alltag zu verankern.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Growth & Character, Discipleship, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Guidance & God's Will, Guilt & Forgiveness, Suffering & the Question of God
Quotes by Jerry Bridges
Being a Christian is not a 'do-it-yourself' affair.
Jerry Bridges
Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.
Jerry Bridges
The great God not only loves His saints, but He loves to love them.
Jerry Bridges
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
Jerry Bridges
No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father’s attention; no circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.
Jerry Bridges
The Christian is not a motor vehicle with its own power source, but rather an electric motor that must remain constantly connected to the power grid.
Jerry Bridges
Accept the cost of good deeds in time, thought, and effort. But remember that opportunities for doing good are not interruptions in God’s plan for us, but part of that plan. We always have time to do what God wants us to do.
Jerry Bridges
Because you and I are in Christ Jesus, His glory and our good are linked together. Because we are united with Christ, whatever is for His glory is also for our good. And whatever is for our good is for His glory.
Jerry Bridges
God is completely sovereign. God is infinite in wisdom. God is perfect in love. God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.
Jerry Bridges
God does deal with our sins, but only in such a way as for our good. He does not deal with us as our sins deserve, which would be punishment, but as His grace provides, which is for our good.
Jerry Bridges
God’s unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’s love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.
Jerry Bridges
Humility, then, is a recognition that we are at the same time “worm Jacob” and a mighty threshing sledge – completely weak and helpless in ourselves, but powerful and useful by the grace of God.
Jerry Bridges
Just as the diamonds on a jeweler’s counter shine more brilliantly when set upon a dark velvet pad, so Christ’s redemptive work shines more brilliantly when contrasted with our sin and the consequent curse that was upon us.
Jerry Bridges
Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.
Jerry Bridges
Spiritual disciplines are provided for our good, not for our bondage. They are privileges to be used, not duties to be performed. To take off on a familiar quotation from Jesus, “Spiritual disciplines were made for man, not man for spiritual disciplines” (see Mark 2:27).
Jerry Bridges
The object of our faith is not the mere content of the message, but the One whom the message is about.
Jerry Bridges
The same Christian activity can be either an expression of our own righteousness that we think earns favor with God, or it can be an expression of love and gratitude because we already have His favor through the righteousness of Christ.
Jerry Bridges
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
Jerry Bridges
We all want grace, but we cannot enjoy grace when there is an attitude of comparing.
Jerry Bridges
We tend to drag up our old sins, that we tend to live under a vague sense of guilt…we are not nearly as vigorous in appropriating God’s forgiveness as He is in extending it. Consequently, instead of living in the sunshine of God’s forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
Jerry Bridges
The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.
Jerry Bridges
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
Jerry Bridges
God’s law, as a rule of life, is not opposed to grace. Rather, used in the right sense, it is the handmaid of grace. Or, to use an analogy, it is like a sheepdog that keeps driving back into the fold of grace, when we stray out into the wilderness of works.
Jerry Bridges
I fear that all too often Christians may be less humane and considerate than nonbelievers. We think we are standing on principle when in reality we may be only insisting on our opinion.
Jerry Bridges
The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God’s timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God’s timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and…want to give up or try to work something out on [our] own.
Jerry Bridges
Even when God deems it necessary to discipline us for persistent disobedience, He always does so out of love to restore us to the way of obedience (see Hebrews 12:4-11).
Jerry Bridges
We are not to be a terminus point for the gospel, but rather a way station in its progress to the ends of the earth. God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.
Jerry Bridges
The word, stored in the heart, provides a mental depository for the Holy Spirit to use to mediate His grace to us, whatever our need for grace might be.
Jerry Bridges
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
God intends the Christian life to be a life of joy – not drudgery. The idea that holiness is associated with a dour disposition is a caricature of the worst sort. In fact, just the opposite is true. Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
Jerry Bridges
Our sins have been put away. To use the language of the Scriptures…they are completely removed, put behind God’s back, blotted out, remembered no more, and hurled into the depths of the sea.
Jerry Bridges
This is the secret of being content: to learn and accept that we live daily by God’s unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.
Jerry Bridges
He has a purpose in every pain He allows in our lives.
Jerry Bridges
Whoever is content knows of God's complete provision for their needs and of God's complete grace in their circumstances.
Jerry Bridges
Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives.
Jerry Bridges
Don’t just share your struggles, and above all, don’t just commiserate with one another. Remember, we are to be ministers of grace to each other. We are to seek to be avenues of the Holy Spirit to help the other person appropriate the grace of God. Praying with and for one another, sharing applicable portions of Scripture, and helping each other submit to God’s providential dealings with us, must characterize our times together.
Jerry Bridges
Grace is never cheap. It is absolutely free to us, but infinitely expensive to God… Anyone who is prone to use grace as a license for irresponsible, sinful behavior, surely does not appreciate the infinite price God paid to give us His grace.
Jerry Bridges
If God is not sovereign in the decisions and actions of other people as they affect us, then there is a whole major area of our lives where we cannot trust God; where we are left, so to speak, to fend for ourselves.
Jerry Bridges
In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed… Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.
Jerry Bridges
One definition of faith might be “Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.”
Jerry Bridges
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Sources: gazette.com, navigators.org, thepastorsworkshop.com, recoveringgrace.org
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