Top 100 Jerry Bridges Quotes
#1. Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of His grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. Every day should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. - JERRY BRIDGES
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#2. We cannot effectively pursue holiness without the Word of God stored up in our minds where it can be used by the Holy Spirit to transform us.
Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace, 180
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#3. We need to learn and remind ourselves every day that God's favor - His blessings and answers to prayer - comes to us not on the basis of our works, but on the basis of the infinite merit of Jesus Christ. - Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Everyday Life
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#4. We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.
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#5. Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.
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#6. If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.
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#7. His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.
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#9. The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
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#10. We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
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#11. God's love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.
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#12. 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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#13. Sin is a spiritual and moral malignancy. Left unchecked, it can spread throughout our entire inner being and contaminate every area of our lives. Even worse, it often will "metastasize" from us into the lives of other believers around us.
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#14. To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.
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#15. We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
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#16. 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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#17. I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.
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#18. Lord, I am willing
To receive what You give.
To lack what You withhold.
To relinquish what You take,
To suffer what You inflict,
To be what you require.
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#19. 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.
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#20. God's grace does not operate on a reward for works basis. It is much better than that.
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#21. 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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#22. As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.
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#23. 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.
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#24. It is relatively easy to serve those above us - even the world expects this - but Jesus served downward.
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#25. Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.
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#26. 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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#27. Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#31. How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.
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#32. As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.
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#33. Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
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#34. Does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine.
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#35. 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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#36. Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives
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#37. 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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#38. God is perfectly holy, then we can be confident that His actions toward us are always perfect and just.
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#40. Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
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#41. To experience His fellowship in suffering we must do as the apostles did: rejoice because we have been counted worthy to suffer for His name (see Acts 5:41).
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#42. We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.
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#43. Romans 7:21, and it distinguishes believers from unbelievers who lie serenely content in their darkness.
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#44. If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we must always keep the gospel of God's forgiveness through Christ before us.
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#45. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.2
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#46. 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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#47. The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.
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#48. Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.
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#49. 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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#50. 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
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#51. May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others
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#52. Biblical community, then, incorporates this idea of an active partnership in the promotion of the gospel and the building up of believers.
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#53. Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will
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#54. 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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#55. The pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
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#56. No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.
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#57. I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.
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#58. But the holiness of Jesus was more than simply the absence of actual sin. It was also a perfect conformity to the will of His Father.
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#59. Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renunciation of any confidence in our own righteousness and a relying entirely on the perfect righteousness and death of Christ.
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#60. Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no greater motivation for dealing with sin in our lives than the realization of these two glorious truths of the gospel.
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#61. God wants us to walk in obedience - not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self.
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#62. Christ died for our sins. Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, took upon Himself a human nature and died a horrible death on our behalf. That is the reason for the cross. He suffered what we should have suffered. He died in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.
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#63. We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.
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#67. It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
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#72. 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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#73. We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
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#77. 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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#78. We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.
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#79. Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.
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#80. To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.
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#81. 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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#82. Pursue holiness, for without holiness no one will see the Lord" (Hebrews 12:14,
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#83. So who needs grace? All of us, the saint as well as the sinner. The most conscientious, dutiful, hardworking Christian needs
God's grace as much as the most dissolute, hard-living sinner. All of us need the same grace. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint,
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.
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#87. God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.
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#88. Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
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#89. Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
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#90. Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them ...
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#91. Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
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#92. I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.
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#93. 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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#94. Acknowledging His holiness is one of the ways we are to praise God.
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#95. We need to cultivate in our own hearts the same hatred of sin God has. Hatred of sin as sin, not just as something disquieting or defeating to ourselves, but as displeasing to God, lies at the root of all true holiness.
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#96. Three means by which God assures us that we do have eternal life: 1. The promises of His Word, 2. The witness of the Spirit in our hearts, 3. The transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.
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#97. 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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#98. Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
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#99. In fact, there is no such thing as grudging obedience. For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.
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#100. 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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