Quotes about Trust
God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly. He is sovereign over the officials of government in lands where our brothers and sisters in Christ suffer for their faith in Him. And He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.
— Jerry Bridges
rejoice because we believe He is in control of those circumstances and is at work through them for our ultimate 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
And if God permits it, it is because the ungodly action is part of God's plan for him. No one can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it (see Lamentations 3:37).
— Jerry Bridges
But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.
— Jerry Bridges
But rather that He works in His mysterious way through their wills to accomplish His purposes.
— Jerry Bridges
Do you need the good favor of a certain professor in order to get a good recommendation for a job? If that job is God's plan for you, God is able to and will move in the heart of that professor to give you a good recommendation.
— Jerry Bridges
Though the absolute sovereignty of God over our lives is consistently taught throughout Scripture, it is not the uncaring sovereignty of a despot but of a God who is just as loving and caring as He is sovereign. But we have to by faith believe that truth when His ways are different from that which we desire.
— 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
How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.
— Jerry Bridges
The faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone.
— Jerry Bridges
In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity. They are: • God is completely sovereign. God is infinite in wisdom. God is perfect in love.
— Jerry Bridges