Quotes about Trust
No one can harm you or jeopardize your future apart from the sovereign will of God.
— Jerry Bridges
Satan, whose very first act toward man was to question the goodness of God, will even plant the thought in our minds that God is up in heaven mocking us in our distress.
— Jerry Bridges
My own experience suggests that Satan attacks us far more in the area of God's love than either His sovereignty or His wisdom.
— 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
But God never allows people to make decisions about us that undermine His plan for us.
— Jerry Bridges
One of the speaker's main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God's, and that the tension between them sets up stress.
— Jerry Bridges
His agenda for our lives that God will guard, protect, and advance. We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.
— Jerry Bridges
Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.
— 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 can put this down as a bedrock truth: God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
— Jerry Bridges