Jerry Bridges Quotes

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

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!

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

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.

Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me.

Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens - not just how people get saved and what to stay away from.

The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the uplifted serpent. That look implied faith. They lived because they believed God's word, and trusted in the means provided for their recover. So to sinner may look to Christ, and live. He receives pardon through faith in the atoning sacrifice. Unlike the inert and lifeless symbol, Christ has power and virtue in Himself to heal the repenting sinner.

The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.

God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'