Quotes by Jerry Bridges

Jerry Bridges

… self-control is not control by oneself through one’s own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Self

Spirit

Willpower

… we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. … God comes to us when we’re spiritually dead, when we don’t even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.

Giving

Jesus

Spiritual

…God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin’s reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

Doe

Holiness

Responsibility

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.

Children

Daughter

Son

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

Biblical

Community

Important

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

Goal

Moving

Pain

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

Body

Lazy

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

Hatred

Holiness

Sin

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.

Drawing

Growing

Practice

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

Character

Christian

Scripture

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Anxiety

Appreciate

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Attention

Attitude

Battle

Becoming

Believe

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Biblical

Bigs

Bitterness

Blessing

Blood

Body

Bored

Bridges

Broken

Brother

Cancer

Challenges

Character

Children

Choices

Christ

Christian

Circumstances

Clean

Comfort And Joy

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Community

Conformity

Contentment

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Culture

Cupboards

Cups

Cutting

Daughter

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Quotes by Jerry Bridges

Jerry Bridges

… self-control is not control by oneself through one’s own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

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

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

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

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.

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

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