Quotes about God
Yet God does this in such a way that these people make their decisions and carry out their plans by their own free and voluntary choices.
— Jerry Bridges
We must believe this and cling to this in the face of adversity and tragedy, if we are to glorify God by trusting Him.
— Jerry Bridges
Does God cause people to make decisions that favor us, and does God restrain people from making decisions that would harm us?
— Jerry Bridges
Yet God controls the king's heart. The stubborn will of the most powerful monarch on earth is directed by God as easily as the farmer directs the flow of water in his irrigation canals.
— Jerry Bridges
Paul said of his colaborer Titus, "I thank God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you. For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative" (2 Corinthians 8:16-)
— Jerry Bridges
Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of.
— Jerry Bridges
To the degree that we live with an abiding sense of His love for us in Christ, to that degree will we love God with all our heart and soul and mind.
— Jerry Bridges
It is by men's being formed to a right way of thinking, that they are formed to a right way of feeling and acting with regard to this world and the next—to God, and our brethren of mankind.
— Jerry Bridges
The Bible speaks not of God's laws, as if many of them, but of God's Law as a single whole.
— Jerry Bridges
Why does folly often prevail over wisdom in the counsels of princes, and in houses of legislators? God has appointed the rejection of good counsel in order to bring on nations that vengeance that their crimes call down from heaven.
— Jerry Bridges
We do know God has instructed us to pray for leaders. Our duty, then, is to pray for wise decisions, but to trust when foolish and harmful decisions are made.
— Jerry Bridges
Proverbs 21:31, "The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the LORD," is one of the most frequently stated truths about the sovereignty of God in all of the Old Testament.
— Jerry Bridges