Jerry Bridges Quotes

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on him by faith, for peace and reconciliation with God.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.

There are people that say they will do better but they never do better. They have no power in them to do better until they come to Christ.

[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.

The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

What is possible for you in Christ Jesus depends on your capacity to believe.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

Remember when you got into the word and it wasn’t because you had a sermon to prepare or you needed to learn some things or there were some doctrinal problems or you knew that to progress as a useful servant you had to continue on in the things of the word of God? Do you remember when you just got into the word because you wanted to hear something from God? You wanted to know something about Him. Do you remember when you just prayed because of Him? Is your heart burning for Him?

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like the Allah of the Mahometans, a talisman or an amulet to be worn on the arm, as an external badge merely and symbol of our profession, and to preserve us from evil by some mysterious and unintelligible potency; but is to be engraved deeply on the heart, there written by the finger of God himself in everlasting characters.

The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.