Jerry Bridges Quotes

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17). You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.