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 (1929–2016), Autor und Referent bei The Navigators
Topics: Service & Love of Neighbour, Grace & Redemption, Church & Congregation
Occasions: Encouragement, For Reflection
Jerry Bridges
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.
All quotes by Jerry Bridges (282)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.
Oswald Chambers
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
There are two ways to do good: to give and to forgive.
Augustine of Hippo
The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard
We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
Etty Hillesum