Jerry Bridges · 192 pages
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“The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God’s providence in our lives.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“Sin is a spiritual and moral malignancy. Left unchecked, it can spread throughout our entire inner being and contaminate every area of our lives. Even worse, it often will “metastasize” from us into the lives of other believers around us.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“Shall we presume on God’s grace by tolerating in ourselves the very sin that nailed Christ to the cross?”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“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, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“all sin without distinction — is lawlessness.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“Our goal in the pursuit of godliness should be to grow more in our conscious awareness that every moment of our lives is lived in the presence of God; that we are responsible to Him and dependent on Him. This goal would include a growing desire to please Him and glorify Him in the most ordinary activities of life. Of”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“Second, not only does the gospel prepare me to face my sin, it also frees me up to do so. Facing our sin causes us to feel guilty. Of course we feel guilty because we are guilty. And if I believe, consciously or unconsciously, that God still counts my guilt against me, my instinctive sense of self-protection forbids me to acknowledge my sin and guilt, or, at the least, I seek to minimize it. But we cannot begin to deal with a particular manifestation of sin, such as anger or self-pity, until we first openly acknowledge its presence and activity in our lives. So I need the assurance that my sin is forgiven before I can even acknowledge it, let alone begin to deal with it. By”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“Second, not only does the gospel prepare me to face my sin, it also frees me up to do so. Facing our sin causes us to feel guilty. Of course we feel guilty because we are guilty. And if I believe, consciously or unconsciously, that God still counts my guilt against me, my instinctive sense of self-protection forbids me to acknowledge my sin and guilt, or, at the least, I seek to minimize it. But we cannot begin to deal with a particular manifestation of sin, such as anger or self-pity, until we first openly acknowledge its presence and activity in our lives. So I need the assurance that my sin is forgiven before I can even acknowledge it, let alone begin to deal with it.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“If I complain about the difficult circumstances of my life, I impugn the sovereignty and goodness of God and tempt my listener to do the same.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
Jerry Bridges
Born place: in Tyler, Texas, The United States
Born date December 4, 1929
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