Quotes about Hope
We are to look beyond our adversity to what God is doing in our lives and rejoice in the certainty that He is at work in us to cause us to grow.
— Jerry Bridges
God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).
— Jerry Bridges
If God's love was sufficient for my greatest need, my eternal salvation, surely it is sufficient for my lesser needs, the adversities I encounter in this life.
— Jerry Bridges
In order to trust God in adversity we must believe that God is completely sovereign, perfect in love, and infinite in wisdom.
— Jerry Bridges
Our lives are also cluttered with a lot of "if onlys." "If only I had done this," or "if only that had not happened." But again, God has no "if onlys." God never makes a mistake; God has no regrets. "As for God, his way is perfect" (Psalm 18:30). We can trust God. He is trustworthy.
— Jerry Bridges
We, too, if we would speak of the Lord's great faithfulness, must turn from our circumstances to the Lord.
— Jerry Bridges
We must see our circumstances through God's love instead of, as we are prone to do, seeing God's love through our circumstances.
— Jerry Bridges
As Lamentations 3:33 states, "For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men."
— Jerry Bridges
He is with us in our troubles.
— Jerry Bridges
There is a vast difference between failing and becoming a failure. We become a failure when we give up—when we stop trying. But as long as we are working on those sinful habits, regardless of how often we fail, we have not become a failure, and we can expect to see progress.
— Jerry Bridges
We were not drowning people needing a life ring—we were dead people in need of life. Further, we were slaves to the world, to the devil, and to our own sinful natures. And as we've already seen, we were by nature objects of God's holy wrath. Dead, slaves, objects of wrath—what a desperate condition!
— Jerry Bridges
The perfect righteousness that we pursue is unattainable in this life. But if we hunger and thirst for it and diligently pursue it, over time we will grow more and more into the person God wants us to be.
— Jerry Bridges