Top 180 Jerry Bridges Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.”

— Jerry Bridges

2. “The purpose of God’s discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.”

— Jerry Bridges

3. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

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4. “Preach the gospel to yourself every day.”

— Jerry Bridges

5. “God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish his purpose. And his purpose is for his glory and our good. Therefore we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain.”

— Jerry Bridges

6. “God never allows pain without a purpose.”

— Jerry Bridges

7. “The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God.”

— Jerry Bridges

8. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

9. “Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.”

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10. “Obedience is the pathway to holiness.”

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11. “The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.”

— Jerry Bridges

12. “Don’t believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.”

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13. “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

14. “Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.”

— Jerry Bridges

15. “Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.”

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16. “Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives.”

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17. “Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.”

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18. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

19. “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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20. “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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21. “Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.”

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22. “God’s guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life’s plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God’s shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.”

— Jerry Bridges

23. “The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.”

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24. “Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.”

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25. “If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.”

— Jerry Bridges

26. “Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.”

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27. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

28. “Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.”

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29. “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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30. “So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking the time to walk with Him and develop a relationship with Him. This is impossible to do.”

— Jerry Bridges

31. “Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God.”

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32. “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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33. “Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.”

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34. “God’s sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.”

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35. “We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.”

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36. “Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.”

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37. “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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38. “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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39. “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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40. “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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41. “Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.”

— Jerry Bridges

42. “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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43. “Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.”

— Jerry Bridges

44. “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

45. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

46. “Every day that we’re not practicing godliness we’re being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.”

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49. “This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.”

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50. “No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.”

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