Faith Quotes by Jerry Bridges

16 Faith quotes by Jerry Bridges

Jerry Bridges never shies away from the hard edges of trust, and these 16 excerpts lay out a clear roadmap for steadfastness. His straightforward style cuts through doubt, offering practical encouragement for everyday spiritual practice.

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I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.

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Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

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“The word faith is a noun and has no verbal form in”

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Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

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Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we…

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God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had…

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I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to…

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In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes…

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Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the…

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“God does not believe for us, but through His Spirit He creates spiritual life in us so that we can believe. Faith…

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“There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of Christ. The more a person…

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The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will…

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... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually…

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In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense. And just…

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“Romans 3:19-26. To help us examine that passage, I will quote it here in its entirety. Now we know that whatever the…

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“Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.”

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God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions.…

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The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him.…

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In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon,…

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Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the…

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... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with…

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Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

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