Quotes about Christ
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
Christ's death was the result of God's grace; grace is not the result of Christ's death.
— Jerry Bridges
God does not believe for us, but through His Spirit He creates spiritual life in us so that we can believe. Faith is the gift of God. It's part of the whole salvation package that God gives to us through the work of Christ for us and the work of the Holy Spirit in us. It's not our contribution, so to speak, to God's great plan of salvation. God does it all. It's part of the unsearchable riches of Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
If you are going to experience the joy of your freedom in Christ, you have to decide whether you will please God or people.
— Jerry Bridges
Christ's whole demeanor was such that people were often restful in His presence. This effect is another outworking of the grace of gentleness. People are at rest, or at ease, around the Christian who is truly gentle.
— Jerry Bridges
We are to count on this fact that we are dead to sin's rule, that we can stand up to it and say no. Therefore we are to guard our bodies so that sin does not reign in us. So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we can now resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours.
— Jerry Bridges
Our source of power is in the risen Christ, and we stay connected to Him by beholding Him in His Word and depending on Him in prayer.
— Jerry Bridges
We don't become saints by our actions. We are made saints by the immediate supernatural action of the Holy Spirit alone who works this change deep within our inner being so that we do, in fact, become new creations in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17).
— Jerry Bridges
Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.
— Jerry Bridges
Scripture speaks of a holiness which we have in Christ before God and a holiness which we must strive after.
— Jerry Bridges
To see the law by Christ fulfilled and hear his pardoning voice, changes a slave into a child and duty into choice.
— Jerry Bridges
The daily experience of Christ's love is linked to our obedience to Him. It is not that His love is conditioned on our obedience. That would be legalism. But our experience of His love is dependent upon our obedience.
— Jerry Bridges