Quotes about Trust
We are just as dependent on God when the physician diagnoses a routine illness and prescribes a successful medication. We are just as dependent when the paycheck comes regularly and all our material needs are met.
— Jerry Bridges
The Scriptures never indicate that God is frustrated to any degree by our failure to act as we should.
— Jerry Bridges
There is no conflict in the Bible between His sovereignty and our responsibility.
— Jerry Bridges
God's providence clearly affirms that we can trust God.
— Jerry Bridges
This does not mean our country should discharge all our military personnel and mothball our ships and tanks. It means we should not trust in them.
— Jerry Bridges
Details are important, and God is just as sovereign over the details as He is over the so-called "big picture.
— Jerry Bridges
Most of us are tempted, from time to time, to question God's love for us.
— Jerry Bridges
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