Quotes about Divine
God is in control; He is sovereign. He does whatever pleases Him and determines whether we can do what we have planned.
— Jerry Bridges
These stories are meant to teach us that God is sovereign over people and to encourage us by the knowledge that God exercises His sovereignty for our good.
— Jerry Bridges
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
Sometimes, according to the Bible, God even moves in the hearts of some people to act stubbornly.
— Jerry Bridges
For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).
— Jerry Bridges
George MacDonald: "I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about—born in God's thoughts—and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking.
— Jerry Bridges
Your promotion, or lack of it, is in the hand of God. Your superiors are simply His agents to carry out His will.
— Jerry Bridges
So while the Bible asserts both God's sovereignty and people's freedom and moral responsibility, it never attempts to explain their relationship.
— Jerry Bridges
The first is that God is infinite in His ways as well as His being.
— Jerry Bridges
The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.
— Jerry Bridges
I believe one of our problems in dealing with this subject is that we tend to view the interaction between God and man on the same level as the interaction between man and man.
— Jerry Bridges
It is frequently asserted in the Scriptures that God uses the sinful actions of men to accomplish His purposes.
— Jerry Bridges