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Jerry Bridges, born on December 4, 1929 and passed away on March 6, 2016, was a renowned Christian author. His works mainly revolve around faith, morality, and spiritual growth. Bridges is known for his profound insights and clear writing style, with his books enjoying a wide readership globally.

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Famous Jerry Bridges Quotes

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

Matter Feelings Trust In God

Book:Trusting God

Source: Trusting God

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

Christ Failing His Love God's Love

Book:Trusting God

Source: Trusting God

“Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.”

Results Gods Will Obeying Trusting Him

Book:The Pursuit of Holiness

Source: The Pursuit of Holiness

“Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will”

Evil Bounds Rulers Sovereign

Author:Jerry Bridges

“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.”

Thinking Believe Individual Deals Refuse

Book:Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

“We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.”

Want Enjoy Attitude Grace Compare

Book:Transforming Grace

Source: Transforming Grace

“God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of Romans 8:28. His work is not dependent upon your faith. But the comfort and joy that statement is intended to give you is dependent upon your believing it, upon your trusting in Him who is at work, even though you cannot see the outcome of that work.”

Ifs Giving Believe Joy Heard Circumstances Comfort Statements Outcomes Dependent Romans 8 Comfort And Joy

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

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

Trying Clean Slate

Book:Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in Gods Unfailing Love

Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in Gods Unfailing Love

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

People Grace God Love Reaching Rebellion

Book:Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

“We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.”

Needs May Christ Challenges Duty Guilt Lifetime Committed Believer Discipleship

Author:Jerry Bridges

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

Heart Our Lives Arise Bitterness Sovereign

Book:The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24

Source: The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24

“Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.”

Children Doe Sin Holy Neighbor Rebellion Spouse Majestic

Author:Jerry Bridges

“God never allows pain without a purpose.”

Pain Purpose Romans 8

Book:Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

“Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.”

Ifs Children Problem Spirit Jesus Water Lord Progress Depends Holy Truth Is Our Children Plant Holy Spirit Holiness

Author:Jerry Bridges

“Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.”

Giving Purpose Dies Jesus Died Purpose Of Life Wrath Wrath Of God

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“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.”

Giving Doe Use Grace Behavior Appreciate Paid Infinite Expensive License Irresponsible

Book:Transforming Grace

Source: Transforming Grace

“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.”

Spirit Christ Secret Humility Flow Unions Unity Fruit Fellowship Fruits Of The Spirit

Author:Jerry Bridges

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

Christian Sin Levels Behavior Standards Determined Compromise Obedience Discipleship

Book:The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

Source: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

“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.”

Important Doubt Failing Goodness Authority Holiness Despise Trust In God Sovereignty

Book:Trusting God

Source: Trusting God

“The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.”

Firsts Mankind Goodness Temptation Questioning Discontent Goodness Of God

Author:Jerry Bridges

“God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.”

Giving Responsibility Holiness Provision

Book:The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24

Source: The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24

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

Book:Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

Source: Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

“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.”

Law Teach Grace Discipline Bases Salvation

Book:Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ

Source: Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ

“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.”

Law Jesus Substitutes Representatives Fulfilled Penalties Requirements

Book:The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

Source: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

“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.”

Spirit Given Christ Secret Situation Accepting Divine Holy Favors Holy Spirit Being Content

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.”

Persons Has Beens Christ Realizing Hurt Sin Grace Forgiving Contrast Receiving Offense Forgiven Offended

Book:Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in Gods Unfailing Love

Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in Gods Unfailing Love

“Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.”

May Christ Duty Guilt Lifetime

Author:Jerry Bridges

“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.”

Heart Persons Position Possession Focused Contentment Traits Godly

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...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.”

Character Might Christian Behavior Patterns Holiness Conformity Holiness Of God Character Of God Behavior Patterns

Author:Jerry Bridges

“God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we honor God by the way we respond to our circumstances.”

Way Feels May Feelings Given Issues Grace Honor Circumstances Feel Better Glorify God's Grace Good Feeling

Book:Transforming Grace

Source: Transforming Grace

“Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.”

Christ Degrees Smallest Reliance Exclusive

Author:Jerry Bridges

“God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.”

Book:The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

Source: The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

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

Bigs Circumstances

Book:Trusting God

Source: Trusting God

“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.”

Should Christian Grace Bases Saved Live By Saved By Grace

Author:Jerry Bridges

“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.”

Mind Emotion Subservient Truth Of God

Book:Trusting God

Source: Trusting God

“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.”

Christ Sky Guilt Sunshine Overcast

Author:Jerry Bridges

“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.”

Pain Order Grows Causes Glory Infinite Perseverance Trials

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.”

Doe Worthy Obedience

Book:Transforming Grace

Source: Transforming Grace

“Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.”

Mind Seems Natural Obedience Unreasonable

Book:The Pursuit of Holiness

Source: The Pursuit of Holiness

“Our very worst days are never beyond the reach of God's grace.”

Grace Worst God's Grace Worst Day

Author:Jerry Bridges

“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.”

Goodness Recognition Dependent Thankfulness Faithfulness

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“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.”

People Dies Jesus Sin Holy Standing Died Transformed Penalties

Author:Jerry Bridges

“I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.”

Want Christian Grows

Author:Jerry Bridges

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

Law Exercise Command Motive Obeying

Book:Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in Gods Unfailing Love

Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in Gods Unfailing Love

“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.”

Two Motivation Jesus Christ Sin Lord Greater Our Lives Jesus Christ Accepted Realization Glorious Righteous Forgiven Our Lord Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord Jesus Christ

Book:Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

Source: Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

“Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.”

Author:Jerry Bridges

“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.”

Should Christian Treats Response Active Traits Passive Gentleness Describing Meekness Mistreat

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“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.”

Character Spirit Virtue Changed Holy Developing Holy Spirit Traits Sanctification

Book:Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ

Source: Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ

“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.”

Needs May Two Enough Grace Feet Blessing Conscious Deserve Performances Worthy Sinfulness

Author:Jerry Bridges

“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.”

Christian Spirit Holy Approach Percent Responsible Pursuit Christian Life Holy Spirit Holiness Dependent Bootstraps

Author:Jerry Bridges

About the Author

Born: December 4, 1929
Died: March 6, 2016
Known for: Author
Quotes: 200

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The Pursuit of HolinessRelated source material

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The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of HolinessRelated source material

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Trusting God: Even When Life HurtsRelated source material

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