Jerry Bridges Quotes

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

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

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.

Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Stop living worried & discouraged. You have a Protector, Deliverer & Dream-Giver. No weapon formed against you can prosper.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may