Jerry Bridges Quotes

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.