The Transforming Power of the Gospel Quotes

“All my labors are marred by sin and imperfection. As I think of every act I have ever done for God, I can only cry out, ‘Oh, God, forgive the iniquity of my holy things.’”5”
― Jerry Bridges, The Transforming Power of the Gospel

“To see the law by Christ fulfilled and hear his pardoning voice, changes a slave into a child and duty into choice.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Transforming Power of the Gospel

“the gospel keeps us from self-righteousness because the gospel is only for sinners.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Transforming Power of the Gospel

“The best preparation for the study of [the gospel] is neither great intellectual ability nor much scholastic learning but a conscience impressed with a sense of our actual condition as sinners in the sight of God. A deep conviction of sin is the one thing needful in such an inquiry, a conviction of the fact of sin, as an awful reality in our own personal experience of the power of sin as an inveterate evil cleaving to us continually, and having its roots deep in the innermost recesses of our hearts.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Transforming Power of the Gospel

“We will not grow unless we see our need to grow, we will not pursue holiness unless we see how much we are still unholy, and we will not see our unholiness unless we look at the holiness of God instead of what we perceive to be the unholiness of our neighbor. This is why we must face up to the sinfulness of our own sin. Our sins are not mere “mistakes”; no, they are acts of lawlessness, of rebellion, of despising God and His law.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Transforming Power of the Gospel

“If it is true that the more we grow, the more sin we see in our lives, what will keep us from becoming discouraged? The answer is the realization that both our eternal salvation and our day-to-day standing with God are based not on our own performance but upon the sinless life and sin-bearing death of Jesus.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Transforming Power of the Gospel