Jerry Bridges quote: "Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory."

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are...
JERRY BRIDGES

Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobe...
JERRY BRIDGES

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent ...
JERRY BRIDGES

As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holines...
JERRY BRIDGES

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days ar...
JERRY BRIDGES

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed...
JERRY BRIDGES

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there i...
JERRY BRIDGES

To mortify sin we must focus on its true nature. So often we are troubled with a persistent sin only...
JERRY BRIDGES

Our motive for obedience is just as important, probably more so, to God than the level of our perfor...
JERRY BRIDGES

We might agree with what the Bible says about a certain sin, “and even make a commitment of sorts ...
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antithetical — that is, in direct and unequivocal opposition to one another. To some, the pursuit ...
JERRY BRIDGES

lot of Christians seem to think that the grace of God and the vigorous pursuit of holiness are antit...
JERRY BRIDGES

Sin grieves God. We must not down-play the seriousness of it in the life of a believer. But we must ...
JERRY BRIDGES

Undoubtedly, one of the reasons God allows us to fall before temptation so often is to teach us expe...
JERRY BRIDGES

The word faith is a noun and has no verbal form in
JERRY BRIDGES

It is only the joy of hearing the gospel and being reminded that our sins are forgiven in Christ tha...
JERRY BRIDGES

George Smeaton wrote, “[The apostle Paul] exhibits the two great counterparts of sin and righteous...
JERRY BRIDGES

When I use the term the law of God here, I am not referring specifically to the Law given to the nat...
JERRY BRIDGES

Romans 3:19-26. To help us examine that passage, I will quote it here in its entirety. Now we know t...
JERRY BRIDGES

I’ve asked people why they think God would probably not use them to share the gospel with someone ...
JERRY BRIDGES

The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always ...
JERRY BRIDGES

The pursuit of holiness requires sustained and vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no letha...
JERRY BRIDGES

If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we...
JERRY BRIDGES

Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renu...
JERRY BRIDGES

Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary...
JERRY BRIDGES

In times of adversity Satan will seek to plant the thought in our minds that God is angry with us an...
JERRY BRIDGES

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.
JERRY BRIDGES

Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumst...
JERRY BRIDGES

Preach the gospel to yourself every day.
JERRY BRIDGES

Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desir...
JERRY BRIDGES

As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite ha...
JERRY BRIDGES

In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must...
JERRY BRIDGES

Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answ...
JERRY BRIDGES

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as w...
JERRY BRIDGES

Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of...
JERRY BRIDGES

God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that w...
JERRY BRIDGES

Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an am...
JERRY BRIDGES

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our...
JERRY BRIDGES

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself...
JERRY BRIDGES

There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of C...
JERRY BRIDGES

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hol...
JERRY BRIDGES

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt...
JERRY BRIDGES

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins griev...
JERRY BRIDGES

Lord, I am willing
To receive what You give.
To lack what You withhold.
To relinquis...
JERRY BRIDGES

No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms '...
JERRY BRIDGES

The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to unders...
JERRY BRIDGES

Indwelling sin remains in us even though it has been dethroned. And though it has been overthrown an...
JERRY BRIDGES

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a ...
JERRY BRIDGES

But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptati...
JERRY BRIDGES

I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
HARRY BRIDGES

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they...
HARRY BRIDGES

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
HARRY BRIDGES

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the tr...
HARRY BRIDGES

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the ...
HARRY BRIDGES

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people ...
HARRY BRIDGES

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cy...
JEFF BRIDGES

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even ...
JEFF BRIDGES

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
BEAU BRIDGES

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
BEAU BRIDGES

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
BEAU BRIDGES

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my...
BEAU BRIDGES

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
BEAU BRIDGES

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's h...
BEAU BRIDGES

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as ...
BEAU BRIDGES

Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I real...
BEAU BRIDGES

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
BEAU BRIDGES

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
BEAU BRIDGES

The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
BEAU BRIDGES

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Ou...
BEAU BRIDGES

My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
BEAU BRIDGES

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
BEAU BRIDGES

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due ...
BEAU BRIDGES

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
BEAU BRIDGES

And I like music, too, I like playing music.
BEAU BRIDGES

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing ...
BEAU BRIDGES

The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don&...
BEAU BRIDGES

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
BEAU BRIDGES

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relat...
BEAU BRIDGES

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise or...
BEAU BRIDGES

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old s...
BEAU BRIDGES

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Morocc...
CHLOE BRIDGES

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
ROBERT BRIDGES

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.
ROBERT BRIDGES

Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.
MADELINE BRIDGES

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were maki...
WILLIAM BRIDGES

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
JEFF BRIDGES

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
BEAU BRIDGES

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
ROBERT BRIDGES

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive th...
BEAU BRIDGES

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due ...
BEAU BRIDGES

So I'm playing a villain for instance, who is supposed to be the bad guy of the story, then I like t...
BEAU BRIDGES

I like sports, I enjoy anything to do with the ocean, I like surfing, sailing, I like to play tennis...
BEAU BRIDGES

The main theme in this film is to embrace diversity along with change, because in America we experie...
BEAU BRIDGES

Jeff is a real perfectionist. He likes to do a lot of takes to make sure that we've exhausted everyt...
BEAU BRIDGES

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.
LEON BRIDGES

Thinking how every day is like tossing an egg. At any moment we may
find our selves saying OH C...
CHUCK BRIDGES

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus...
JEFF BRIDGES

Sometimes with the initial shock, you have to have some down time as far as crying, grieving and som...
ANGELA BRIDGES

If a student comes in my office and doesn't want to talk me, they just might want to sit still, be a...
ANGELA BRIDGES

Grieving is a process. There's a process of the shock, the anger, and then coping with the situation...
ANGELA BRIDGES

First of all, students have to actually grieve to get over it. They cannot just ignore the situation...
ANGELA BRIDGES

Students wear everything on their shoulders - I mean you usually know it, friends can know, even peo...
ANGELA BRIDGES

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that ...
JEFF BRIDGES

The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the plac...
JEFF BRIDGES

About 25 years ago, my wife and I bought Kenny Loggins' house in Santa Barbara. It was way out o...
JEFF BRIDGES

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a to...
BEAU BRIDGES

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it wit...
LLOYD BRIDGES

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are sli...
JEFF BRIDGES

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of...
JEFF BRIDGES

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
JEFF BRIDGES

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumu...
JEFF BRIDGES

I felt like I played one of my better games in the series. Even though three goals went in, I felt t...
BRYAN BRIDGES

They got one and we need to go five now. We know that we're a better team than those guys and we jus...
BRYAN BRIDGES

Last weekend I wasn't great, but tonight I felt like I was right back on top of my game. I know they...
BRYAN BRIDGES

They had some guys that were banged up and so did we. With all that happening I think we played a so...
BRYAN BRIDGES

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed ...
JEFF BRIDGES

I wanted to play my last game here and I was hoping for a repeat of last year when I shut out Everet...
BRYAN BRIDGES

It was 40 shots, but a lot of those shots were from the perimeter, and there weren't too many screen...
BRYAN BRIDGES

The guys did a great job defensively. This just goes to show you can win a game scoring one goal if ...
BRYAN BRIDGES

I'd rather get the two points. They made it closer than I liked, but our guys were up to the task.
BRYAN BRIDGES

I've tried meditation and it feels like I'm wasting my time. This is meditative and relaxing but I p...
BRYAN BRIDGES

We're playing smart hockey. You don't want to be sitting back and letting the other team pressure yo...
BRYAN BRIDGES

I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosb...
LEON BRIDGES

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't t...
JEFF BRIDGES

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.
LLOYD BRIDGES

I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard t...
LEON BRIDGES

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don...
JEFF BRIDGES

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
JEFF BRIDGES

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at dif...
JEFF BRIDGES

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different...
JEFF BRIDGES

The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get ...
JEFF BRIDGES

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportun...
WILLIAM BRIDGES

Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.
MADELINE BRIDGES

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric ligh...
JEFF BRIDGES

Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds ...
ROBERT BRIDGES

So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it ...
ROBERT BRIDGES

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, / In large white flakes falling on the city brown, / ...
ROBERT BRIDGES

The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten ...
ROBERT BRIDGES

Wherefore to-night so full of care, / My soul, revolving hopeless strife?
ROBERT BRIDGES

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
LLOYD BRIDGES

I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or boo...
MARK BRIDGES

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.
JEFF BRIDGES

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking wit...
JEFF BRIDGES

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
JEFF BRIDGES

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and...
JEFF BRIDGES

Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through ...
LEON BRIDGES

In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be...
MARK BRIDGES

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child...
JORDAN BRIDGES

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play...
LEON BRIDGES

The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent mo...
MARK BRIDGES

Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Some...
JEFF BRIDGES

Execution is everything.
JEFF BRIDGES

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come...
JEFF BRIDGES

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own...
JEFF BRIDGES

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort ...
LLOYD BRIDGES

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
JEFF BRIDGES

There are not a lot of junior enlisted Airmen out there getting the chance to operate a weapons syst...
AIRMAN BRIDGES

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
JEFF BRIDGES

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go....
JEFF BRIDGES

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of...
WILLIAM BRIDGES

We've got a couple of old heads in Andy Duncan and Mark Peters, but I'm probably the next oldest pla...
DAVID BRIDGES

But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on so...
BEAU BRIDGES

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
JEFF BRIDGES

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones th...
JEFF BRIDGES

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fa...
LLOYD BRIDGES

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.
JEFF BRIDGES

Mania is a wonderful feeling.
JEFF BRIDGES

D.A.T.A. stands for desires, abilities, temperament and assets. . . . desires [may] include solving ...
WILLIAM BRIDGES

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
WILLIAM BRIDGES

We come to beginnings only at the end
WILLIAM BRIDGES

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
JEFF BRIDGES

Sheldon has a reputation for being such a tough guy on the ice because he is a great defender who pr...
ANGELICA BRIDGES

The world is constantly looking at you as if you're under a microscope. That can put a lot of pressu...
ANGELICA BRIDGES

I've been asked before if my butt was real, and of course it is. I guess it's just so round and perk...
ANGELICA BRIDGES

There are open questions right now and a lively debate about how far restrictions can go in user lic...
ANDREW BRIDGES

Some of those sales may be legal and some not.
ANDREW BRIDGES

I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES

If your boat is in a toilet bowl going down, it may look better then the climb up.
CHUCK BRIDGES

Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a ...
JEFF BRIDGES

I don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the ...
LEON BRIDGES

I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I rea...
LEON BRIDGES

I will not let thee go. / Had not the great sun seen, I might; / Or were he reckoned slow / To bring...
ROBERT BRIDGES

The hill pines were sighing, / O'ercast and chill was the day: / A mist in the valley lying / Blotte...
ROBERT BRIDGES

The day begins to droop, - / Its course is done: / But nothing tells the place / Of the setting sun.
ROBERT BRIDGES

Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, / Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West.
ROBERT BRIDGES

There's a lot of room for argument.
ANDREW BRIDGES

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the...
JEFF BRIDGES

Give love, and love to your life will flow.
MADELINE BRIDGES

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates t...
BEAU BRIDGES

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a pro...
JEFF BRIDGES

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in curren...
JEFF BRIDGES

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photogra...
JEFF BRIDGES

If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?
CHUCK BRIDGES

It's more than six years since my last hat-trick so it was sweet to get another one. I'm getting bac...
MICHAEL BRIDGES

Better than brothers. And on my driver's license, my Social Security card, everything. Most people w...
U.Z. BRIDGES

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are...
WILLIAM BRIDGES

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve...
JEFF BRIDGES

The parents had a lot of fun, but they were real sore the next morning. They're not used to running ...
CAROLE BRIDGES

I saw the opportunity to do something for the entire city, not just a softball program, but also a p...
CAROLE BRIDGES

Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

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Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

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