Quotes about Trust
Just as we should learn to stop asking why, or searching for rational explanations, or seeking to discover what "good" there is in our own adversities, so we must also learn to quiet our hearts in regard to God's government of the universe.
— Jerry Bridges
What was it that caused such a dramatic mood change in the heart of the writer? He turns from the circumstances at hand to the Lord.
— Jerry Bridges
If God controls the circumstances of the sparrow, how much more does He control the circumstances that affect us?
— Jerry Bridges
We, too, if we would speak of the Lord's great faithfulness, must turn from our circumstances to the Lord.
— Jerry Bridges
We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.
— Jerry Bridges
We must see our circumstances through God's love instead of, as we are prone to do, seeing God's love through our circumstances.
— Jerry Bridges
When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.
— Jerry Bridges
Above all else, our response to adversity should be to seek God's glory.
— Jerry Bridges
If I complain about the difficult circumstances of my life, I impugn the sovereignty and goodness of God and tempt my listener to do the same.
— Jerry Bridges
If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe that just as certainly as God will allow nothing to subvert His glory, so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
— Jerry Bridges
It means we believe that God causes all events in our lives, whether good or bad as we judge them, to work together to conform us more and more into the likeness of Christ. It means we give thanks in all circumstances - not for the circumstance considered in itself, but for God's promise to use these circumstances to conform us more to Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?
— Jerry Bridges