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Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love QUOTES

1 " The Bible never speaks of God's grace as simply making up our deficiencies--as if salvation consists in so much good works (even a variable amount) plus so much of God's grace. Rather the Bible speaks of "a God who justifies the wicked" (Romans 4:5) who is found by those who do not seek Him, who reveals Himself to those who do not ask for Him (see Romans 10:20). "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

2 " To say a person is morally bankrupt is to say he or she is completely devoid of any decent moral qualities. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

3 " Lord, I am willing
To receive what You give.
To lack what You withhold.
To relinquish what You take,
To suffer what You inflict,
To be what you require. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

4 " Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

5 " Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, He purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

6 " The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

7 " C. Samuel Storms has so aptly written, Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. . . . Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to withdraw it in the presence of human demerit. . . . [Grace] is treating a person without the slightest reference to desert whatsoever, but solely according to the infinite goodness and sovereign purpose of God.4 "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

8 " Christ’s death was the result of God’s grace; grace is not the result of Christ’s death. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

9 " Even as Christians our best efforts are still marred with imperfect performance and impure motives. But God no longer “sees” either our deliberate disobedience or our marred performances. Instead He “sees” the righteousness of Christ, which He has already imputed to us. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

10 " What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”2 "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

11 " 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 , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

12 " Sin, in the final analysis, is rebellion against the sovereign Creator, Ruler, and Judge of the universe. It resists the rightful prerogative of a sovereign Ruler to command obedience from His subjects. It says to an absolutely holy and righteous God that His moral laws, which are a reflection of His own nature, are not worthy of our wholehearted obedience. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

13 " Contentment with what we have — whether it is possessions, or station in life, or mental or physical abilities — is worth far, far more than all the things we don’t have. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

14 " He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater; He sendeth more grace when the labours increase; To added afflictions he addeth his mercy, To multiplied trials his multiplied peace. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere the day is half done; When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, Our Father’s full giving is only begun. His love has no limits, his grace has no measure, His power has no boundary known unto men; For out of his infinite riches in Jesus, He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again. Annie Johnson Flint "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

15 " We are brought into God’s kingdom by grace; we are sanctified by grace; we receive both temporal and spiritual blessings by grace; we are motivated to obedience by grace; we are called to serve and enabled to serve by grace; we receive strength to endure trials by grace; and finally, we are glorified by grace. The entire Christian life is lived under the reign of God’s grace. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

16 " The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

17 " Grace is not a matter of God's making up the difference, but of God's providing all the "cost" of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

18 " So who needs grace? All of us, the saint as well as the sinner. The most conscientious, dutiful, hardworking Christian needs
God's grace as much as the most dissolute, hard-living sinner. All of us need the same grace. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint, "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

19 " Sin is not only a series of actions, it is also an attitude that ignores the law of God. But it is even more than a rebellious attitude. Sin is a state of heart, a condition of our inmost being. It is a state of corruption, of vileness, yes, even of filthiness in God’s sight. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

20 " God’s grace does not operate on a reward for works basis. It is much better than that. "

― Jerry Bridges , Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love