Jerry Bridges Quotes

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

I am trying to get closer to God.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.