Jerry Bridges Trusting God Quotes & Sayings

Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament. — Terry Tempest Williams

I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don't feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth. — Jerry Bridges

Why do beautiful women love ugly men? — Jill Lepore

Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results. — Jerry Bridges

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him. — Jerry Bridges

If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God. — Lyman Abbott

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.] — Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Why is it that every nation considers its own customs reasonable, and those of other nations amusing? — Botan

They who trim themselves to suit others will soon whittle themselves away. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

God forgive the church of Jesus Christ for trading its birthright access to the transcendent for the pot of stew that is horizontal helpfulness. How shortsighted and human centered. The outcome of this disaster is that we have created a Creator in our own image who weeps, cares, and longs to help, but in the end we doubt He can because we have made Him so much like ourselves. In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes. — James MacDonald

Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex in an alley, that's not a crime. That's a coincidence. — Eugene Mirman

Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike. — Willard Van Orman Quine

True joy comes from knowing Christ personally and from depending on His strength rather than your own. — Jim George

It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. — Kristin Hannah

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us. — Jerry Bridges

Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. — Jerry Bridges

God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of Romans 8:28. His work is not dependent upon your faith. But the comfort and joy that statement is intended to give you is dependent upon your believing it, upon your trusting in Him who is at work, even though you cannot see the outcome of that work. — Jerry Bridges

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe 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

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. — Edward Zwick

Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of the circumstance and dominate every last detail: to guarantee that they're going to have a far better time than they ever would have had if they tried to control it themselves. — Charlie Trotter

...killing rats wasn't in my job description. — Scott Douglas

Life goes on- and a fool and his self respect are soon parted ... — Kurt Vonnegut