Quote

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

Jerry Bridges

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jerry Bridges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 4
Died: 2016
Died: March 6
Author
Writer
Tyler
Texas
Sinned
Obeyed
Justified
Also
Better
Even
Always
Never

More quotes by Jerry Bridges

Image
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
Jerry Bridges
Image
Obedience is the pathway to holiness.
Jerry Bridges
Image
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
Jerry Bridges
Image
Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.
Jerry Bridges
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
Jerry Bridges
Image
No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.
Jerry Bridges
Image
When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.
Jerry Bridges
Image
God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You (Psm. 119:11).
Jerry Bridges
Image
Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.
Jerry Bridges
Image
Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
Jerry Bridges
Image
Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
Jerry Bridges
Image
We're more concerned about our own victory over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
Jerry Bridges
Image
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.
Jerry Bridges
Image
We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.
Jerry Bridges
Image
Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life he died to save us from the wrath of God.
Jerry Bridges
Image
That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.
Jerry Bridges
Image
Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
Jerry Bridges