Inspirational Quotes by Jerry Bridges
“Paul acknowledged what we must acknowledge if we are to trust God. 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.”
“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”
“no plan of God's can be thwarted. God does as He pleases, and only as He pleases, and no one can frustrate His plans or hinder His purposes.”
“Whatever our particular calamity or adversity may be, we may be sure that our Father has a loving purpose in it.”
“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.”
“Rather than being offended over the Bible's assertion of God's sovereignty in both good and calamity, believers should be comforted by it.”
“In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity. They are: • God is completely sovereign. • God is infinite in wisdom. • God is perfect in love.”
“the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone.”
“spread a table in the desert? … Can he supply meat for his people?’” The next two verses”
“when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God”
“But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.”
“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.”
“But God has not walked away from the day-to-day control of His creation. Certainly He has established physical laws by which He governs the forces of nature, but those laws continuously operate according to His sovereign will.”
“God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly. He is sovereign over the officials of government in lands where our brothers and sisters in Christ suffer for their faith in Him. And He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.”
“He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.”
“God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly.”
“Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don't feel like it.”
“God’s sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible to pray with confidence.”
“The so-called laws of nature are nothing more than the physical expression of the steady will of Christ.”
― Jerry Bridges ,
from Trusting God
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Jerry Bridges is an evangelical Christian author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Pursuit of Holiness, which has sold more than one million copies. His devotional Holiness Day By Day garnered the 2009 ECPA Christian Book Award for the inspiration and gift category, and The Discipline Of Grace received a similar award in 1995 for the Christian living category.
Bridges earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Oklahoma before serving as an officer in the United States Navy during the Korean War.
He joined Christian discipleship organization The Navigators in 1955, where he served as administrative assistant to the Europe Director, office manager for the headquarters office, Secretary-Treasurer of the organization, and as Vice President for Corporate Affairs before moving to a staff development position with the Collegiate Mission.