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Christ Quotes by Jerry Bridges
- ...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the…
- Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs…
- Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.
- Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are convinced that God's…
- If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether…
- Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to…
- When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
- God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.
- We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on…
- The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows…
- This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we…
- The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He…
- Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.
- Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
- Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
- Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of our Lord Jesus…
- Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
- It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that…
- To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with…
- Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that…
- We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
- ... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God…
More Christ Quotes
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar. — Sebastian Bach
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth
- Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought… — Bruce Barton