Jerry Bridges Quotes

While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you to recognize that you are not a victim. Through the grace of God, you are lifted above and beyond any forces-internal or external-that threaten to limit you. Knowing you're not a victim is a major form of personal empowerment.

God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.

Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

The soul needs more space than the body.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ''the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher.

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

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

Freedom, my friend, can only be found in His grace.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.