Quotes about Obedience
Only conduct arising from love is worthy of the name obedience.
— Jerry Bridges
God has called every Christian to a holy life. There are no exceptions to this call.
— Jerry Bridges
The experience of holiness is not a gift we receive like justification, but something which we are clearly exhorted to work at.
— Jerry Bridges
Why did Rehoboam make such a foolish decision? The Scripture says, "So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken" (1 Kings 12:15). Two foolish decisions were made, in two instances good advice was rejected and harmful or foolish advice was followed. Both instances are attributed to the sovereign work of God guiding the minds of the kings to accomplish His will.
— Jerry Bridges
The Bible speaks not of God's laws, as if many of them, but of God's Law as a single whole.
— Jerry Bridges
God wants us to walk in obedience - not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self. This may seem to be merely splitting hairs over semantics, but there's a subtle, self-centered attitude at the root of many of our difficulties with sin. Until we deal with this attitude, we won't consistently walk in holiness.
— Jerry Bridges
Our good works are not truly good unless they're motivated by a love for God and a desire to glorify Him. But we cannot have such a Godward motivation if we think we must earn God's favor by our obedience or if we fear we may forfeit His favor by disobedience. Such a works-oriented motivation is essentially self-serving, prompted more by what we think we gain or lose than by a grateful response to the grace He has already given us through Jesus Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
The only safe evidence that we are in Christ is a holy life.
— Jerry Bridges
If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.
— Jerry Bridges
The Scriptures never indicate that God is frustrated to any degree by our failure to act as we should.
— Jerry Bridges
We might agree with what the Bible says about a certain sin, "and even make a commitment of sorts to put it out of our lives…..We would like to be rid of that sin, and even pray to God to take it away, but are we willing to say no to it?
— 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