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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.


Jeff Bridges

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JERRY BRIDGES Sin grieves God. We must not down-play the seriousness of it in the life of a believer. But we must ...
JERRY BRIDGES Undoubtedly, one of the reasons God allows us to fall before temptation so often is to teach us expe...
JERRY BRIDGES The word faith is a noun and has no verbal form in
JERRY BRIDGES It is only the joy of hearing the gospel and being reminded that our sins are forgiven in Christ tha...
JERRY BRIDGES George Smeaton wrote, “[The apostle Paul] exhibits the two great counterparts of sin and righteous...
JERRY BRIDGES When I use the term the law of God here, I am not referring specifically to the Law given to the nat...
JERRY BRIDGES Romans 3:19-26. To help us examine that passage, I will quote it here in its entirety. Now we know t...
JERRY BRIDGES I’ve asked people why they think God would probably not use them to share the gospel with someone ...
JERRY BRIDGES The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always ...
JERRY BRIDGES The pursuit of holiness requires sustained and vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no letha...
JERRY BRIDGES If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we...
JERRY BRIDGES Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renu...
JERRY BRIDGES Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary...
JERRY BRIDGES In times of adversity Satan will seek to plant the thought in our minds that God is angry with us an...
JERRY BRIDGES All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.
JERRY BRIDGES Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumst...
JERRY BRIDGES Preach the gospel to yourself every day.
JERRY BRIDGES Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desir...
JERRY BRIDGES As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite ha...
JERRY BRIDGES In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must...
JERRY BRIDGES Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answ...
JERRY BRIDGES We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as w...
JERRY BRIDGES Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of...
JERRY BRIDGES If your boat is in a toilet bowl going down, it may look better then the climb up.
CHUCK BRIDGES I don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the ...
LEON BRIDGES I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I rea...
LEON BRIDGES I will not let thee go. / Had not the great sun seen, I might; / Or were he reckoned slow / To bring...
ROBERT BRIDGES The hill pines were sighing, / O'ercast and chill was the day: / A mist in the valley lying / Blotte...
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