Quotes about Relationship
We tend to think of God as being like us.
— Jerry Bridges
In order to trust God we must know Him in an intimate, personal way.
— Jerry Bridges
It is more than just knowing facts about God. It is coming into a deeper personal relationship with Him as a result of seeking Him in the midst of our personal pain and discovering Him to be trustworthy.
— Jerry Bridges
Only conduct arising from love is worthy of the name obedience.
— Jerry Bridges
If we desire to experience the totality of fellowship with Christ, we must expect to experience the fellowship of His sufferings.
— Jerry Bridges
The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God.
— Jerry Bridges
The common life that believers have in Him. In the same manner, if believers are to share with one another
— Jerry Bridges
If God loved me enough to give His Son to die for me when I was His enemy, surely He loves me enough to care for me now that I am His child.
— Jerry Bridges
Henry observed when commenting on Zephaniah 3:17, "The great God not only loves his saints, but he loves to love them." God takes great delight in loving us because we are His very own.
— Jerry Bridges
The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian.
— Jerry Bridges
We are all sinners and are on an equal plane with one another. So we cannot exercise grace as God does, but we can relate to one another as those who have received grace and who wish to operate on the principles of grace.
— Jerry Bridges
Because His people were in union with Him, to persecute them was to persecute Him. This truth is no different today. You are in union with Christ, just as surely as the disciples were in the time of the book of Acts.
— Jerry Bridges