Top 180 Jerry Bridges Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

102. “God wants us to walk in obedience – not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self.”

— Jerry Bridges

103. “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

104. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

105. “The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always dependent on God’s grace, His undeserved favor to those who deserve His wrath. Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.”

— Jerry Bridges

106. “Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.”

— Jerry Bridges

107. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

108. “Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit’s work in our lives to produce the desire and the means to pursue peace. But we are also responsible to use the means He has given us and to take all practical steps to attain both peace within and peace with others.”

— Jerry Bridges

109. “As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.”

— Jerry Bridges

110. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

111. “Too many of us focus on the outward structure of character and conduct without taking the time to build the inward foundation of devotion to God. This often results in a cold morality or legalism, or, even worse, self-righteousness and spiritual pride.”

— Jerry Bridges

112. “We cannot separate trust in God from the fear of God. We will trust Him only to the extent that we genuinely stand in awe of Him.”

— Jerry Bridges

113. “Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.”

— Jerry Bridges

114. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

115. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

116. “Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God’s right to do as He pleases in our lives.”

— Jerry Bridges

117. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

118. “Shall we presume on God’s grace by tolerating in ourselves the very sin that nailed Christ to the cross?”

— Jerry Bridges

119. “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

120. “No one can act outside of God’s sovereign will or against it. Centuries ago, Augustine said, “Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen: he either permits it to happen, or he brings it about himself.”5.”

— Jerry Bridges

121. “How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.”

— Jerry Bridges

122. “Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.”

— Jerry Bridges

123. “Run, John, run. The law commands But gives neither feet nor hands. Better news the gospel brings; It bids me fly and gives me wings.”

— Jerry Bridges

124. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

125. “God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.”

— Jerry Bridges

126. “A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can’t be both. But with God we’re both born of Him and adopted by Him.”

— Jerry Bridges

127. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

128. “May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others.”

— Jerry Bridges

129. “As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.”

— Jerry Bridges

130. “The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.”

— Jerry Bridges

131. “The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.”

— Jerry Bridges

132. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

133. “What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”2.”

— Jerry Bridges

134. “Inner conflict and turmoil often result in conflict with others, so we must achieve inner peace to effectively pursue peace with others.”

— Jerry Bridges

135. “We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.”

— Jerry Bridges

136. “We don’t have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.”

— Jerry Bridges

137. “The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.”

— Jerry Bridges

138. “The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.”

— Jerry Bridges

139. “All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.”

— Jerry Bridges

140. “The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because He does not act as we think He should, we conclude He cannot act as we think He would. GOD.”

— Jerry Bridges

141. “Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God.”

— Jerry Bridges

142. “We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.”

— Jerry Bridges

143. “Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.”

— Jerry Bridges

144. “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.”

— Jerry Bridges

145. “Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.”

— Jerry Bridges

146. “The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling.”

— Jerry Bridges

147. “Christ’s whole demeanor was such that people were often restful in His presence. This effect is another outworking of the grace of gentleness. People are at rest, or at ease, around the Christian who is truly gentle.”

— Jerry Bridges

148. “We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.”

— Jerry Bridges

149. “We are brought into God’s kingdom by grace; we are sanctified by grace; we receive both temporal and spiritual blessings by grace; we are motivated to obedience by grace; we are called to serve and enabled to serve by grace; we receive strength to endure trials by grace; and finally, we are glorified by grace. The entire Christian life is lived under the reign of God’s grace.”

— Jerry Bridges

150. “If you are going to experience the joy of your freedom in Christ, you have to decide whether you will please God or people.”

— Jerry Bridges