{"author":"Jerry Bridges","author_id":"Jerry+Bridges","total_quotes":54,"quotes":[{"text":"W. S. Plumer said, “We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, ‘I have sinned’; but the returning prodigal said, ‘I have sinned against heaven and before thee’; and David said, ‘Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["holiness","sin"],"id":5114,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["biblical-community","community","koinonia","share"],"id":13746,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"You may have sought and tried to obtain instant godliness. There is no such thing....We want somebody to give us three easy steps to godliness, and we'll take them next Friday and be godly. The trouble is, godliness doesn't come that way.~Jay Adams~.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["easy","godliness","growth"],"id":13773,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedience and disobedience. When I say I am defeated by some sin, I am unconsciously slipping out from under my responsibility. I am saying something outside of me has defeated me. But when I say I am disobedient, that places the responsibility for my sin squarely on me. We may in fact be defeated, but the reason we are defeated is because we have chosen to disobey. We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["compromise","disobedience","rebellion","sin"],"id":18119,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["character","conformity","god","holiness","obedience"],"id":42584,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"The sinner does not need more grace than the saint, nor does the immature and undisciplined believer need more than the godly, zealous missionary. We all need the same amount of grace because the 'currency' of our good works is debased and worthless before God.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["christian-living","christianity","god","grace"],"id":44244,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["christian-living","christianity","pursuit-of-holiness","religion"],"id":46508,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to understand that Christ has delivered him from the reign of sin, when he begins to see that he is united to Him who has all power and authority and that it is possible to walk in obedience, he begins to have hope, and as he hopes in Christ, he begins to have joy. In the strength of this joy, he begins to overcome the sins that have so easily entangle him. He then finds that the joy of a holy walk is infinitely more satisfying than the fleeting pleasures of sin. But to experience this joy, we must make some choices. We must choose to forsake sin, not only because it is defeating to us but because it grieves the heart of God.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["disobedience","holiness","joy","sin"],"id":60688,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["holiness","holy-spirit","sin"],"id":73774,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"},{"text":"Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.","author":"Jerry Bridges","tags":["community","koinonia"],"id":87333,"author_id":"Jerry+Bridges"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}