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One Quotes by Jerry Bridges
- We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of…
- A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
- The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed…
- The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his…
- I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one…
- If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a…
- Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on…
- In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such…
- The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart…
- ... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
- One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle