Top 100 Jerry Bridges Quotes
#1. If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.
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#2. His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.
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#3. 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.
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#4. We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we fail to see it as the basis of our day-to-day acceptance with Him. As a result, many believers live in spiritual poverty.
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#5. I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.
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#6. Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.
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#7. Grace ... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.
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#8. Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
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#9. We don't become saints by our actions. We are made saints by the immediate supernatural action of the Holy Spirit alone who works this change deep within our inner being so that we do, in fact, become new creations in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17).
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#10. It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent
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#12. Sin is not only a series of actions, it is also an attitude that ignores the law of God. But it is even more than a rebellious attitude. Sin is a state of heart, a condition of our inmost being. It is a state of corruption, of vileness, yes, even of filthiness in God's sight.
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#13. Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives
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#14. To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.
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#15. We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.
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#16. Romans 7:21, and it distinguishes believers from unbelievers who lie serenely content in their darkness.
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#17. God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that we be serious about holiness, that we grieve over sin in our lives instead of justifying it, and that we earnestly pursue holiness as a way of life.
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#18. Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.
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#19. Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will
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#20. 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.
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#21. The pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
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#22. Our source of power is in the risen Christ, and we stay connected to Him by beholding Him in His Word and depending on Him in prayer.
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#23. We cannot categorize sin if we are to live a life of holiness. God will not let us get away with that kind of attitude.
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#24. In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.
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#25. Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, He purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive.
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#26. 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? I
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#27. Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
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#28. Many people erroneously think that God can just forgive our sins because He is a loving God. Nothing could be further from the truth. The cross speaks to us not only about our sin but about God's holiness.
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#29. Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.
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#30. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint, nor does the immature and undisciplined believer need more than the godly, zealous missionary. We all need the same amount of grace because the "currency" of our good works is debased and worthless before God.
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#31. We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.
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#32. Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.
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#33. 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.
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#34. There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.
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#35. Matthew Henry says that to walk with God is "to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions."5
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#36. Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
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#37. Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
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#38. Self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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#39. Acknowledging His holiness is one of the ways we are to praise God.
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#40. Because we have a natural tendency to look within ourselves for the basis of God's approval or disapproval, we must make a conscious daily effort to look outside ourselves to the righteousness of Christ, then to stand in the present reality of our justification.
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#41. Many people will profess faithfulness, but few will demonstrate it. The virtue of faithfulness is often costly, and few people are willing to pay the price. But for the godly person, faithfulness is an absolutely essential quality of his character, regardless of what it might cost.
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#43. Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
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#44. The same grace that brings salvation teaches us to renounce ungodly living.
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#45. The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure
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#46. When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
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#47. God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.
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#48. Believe this truth, that we are fellow members of the body of Christ and that God loves each of us, could serve to diffuse a lot of hostility and disagreement among fellow believers. I am grateful that God taught me this lesson early in my training to be a Navigator staff member.
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#49. It is only as we see His holiness, His absolute purity and moral hatred of sin, that we will be gripped by the awfulness of sin against the Holy God. To be gripped by that fact is the first step in our pursuit of holiness.
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#50. Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
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#51. All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.
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#52. God has called every Christian to a holy life. There are no exceptions to this call. It
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#54. The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.
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#55. God never makes a mistake; God has no regrets. "As for God, his way is perfect" (Psalm 18:30). We can trust God. He is trustworthy.
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#56. If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
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#57. Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of our praise.
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#58. Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.
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#59. The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows beyond us to bring us into fellowship with others. The secret of this flow - and our unity with God and others - is humility.
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#60. But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.
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#62. We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.
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#63. But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1).
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#64. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
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#65. Even Christians taking in the teaching of the Bible can be deceived about our own sins. We somehow feel that consent to the teaching of scripture is equivalent to obedience.
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#66. You may have sought and tried to obtain instant godliness. There is no such thing....We want somebody to give us three easy steps to godliness, and we'll take them next Friday and be godly. The trouble is, godliness doesn't come that way.
~Jay Adams~
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#67. And the God who ruled absolutely in the life and fortunes of the most powerful monarch of that time still rules in the fortunes and destinies of governments today. No government or dictator is so powerful as to be beyond the sway of His sovereign rule over all the nations of the earth. GOD
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#68. The only safe evidence that we are in Christ is a holy life. John
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#69. What was in the cup Jesus drank at His crucifixion? It was the wrath of God.
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#70. 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.
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#71. 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.
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#72. But the reality is that many people are facing nonphysical persecution because of their stand for righteousness.
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#73. Spread a table in the desert? ... Can he supply meat for his people?' The next two verses
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#74. holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian. Paul's
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#75. The holiness described in the Bible calls us to do more than separate ourselves from the moral pollution of the world around us. It calls us to obey God even when that obedience is costly, when it requires deliberate sacrifice and even exposure to danger.
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#76. If I complain about the difficult circumstances of my life, I impugn the sovereignty and goodness of God and tempt my listener to do the same.
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#78. Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
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#79. Undoubtedly, one of the reasons God allows us to fall before temptation so often is to teach us experientially that we really are dependent on Him to enable us to grow in holiness.
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#80. Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.
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#81. As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
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#82. We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
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#83. God is never at a loss because He cannot find someone to cooperate with Him in carrying out His plan. He so moves in the hearts of people - either Christians or non Christians, it makes no difference - that they willingly, of their own free will carry out His plans.
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#84. God's plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.
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#85. Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.
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#86. 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.
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#87. If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.
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#88. Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.
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#89. Contentment with what we have - whether it is possessions, or station in life, or mental or physical abilities - is worth far, far more than all the things we don't have.
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#90. The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
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#91. Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.
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#92. Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
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#93. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.
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#94. We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.
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#95. Scripture speaks of a holiness which we have in Christ before God and a holiness which we must strive after.
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#96. This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.
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#97. 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.
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#98. It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).
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#99. God is serious about holiness in the lives of His people, and He will discipline us to attain it.
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#100. The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
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