The Blessing of Humility Quotes

“Most Christians assume that the gospel is only for unbelievers. They see the gospel only as a door you walk through to be saved. The reality, though, is that the gospel is more like a path that you walk along for the rest of your life until you go to be with the Lord. To put it in plain words, believers need to appropriate the gospel for themselves every day.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility

“It is so easy for us to stand apart from the culture and do no more than express self-righteous judgmentalism toward it. But those of us who grieve deeply over our own sin will not do this. Instead we will mourn over the sins and wickedness of our nation and will pray most urgently that, just as we want God to be merciful to us, so we want Him to be merciful to our nation as a whole. This will be another expression of humility in action.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility

“But be it ever so small in our own eyes, when we sin we also break God’s law. And Scripture says, “Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it” (James 2:10). God’s law is seamless, one complete whole. So when we break any of it, we break the whole law.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility

“That is, humility should be as much a part of us as the clothes we wear. We wouldn’t think of appearing before other people without our clothes. And we shouldn’t think of appearing before other people without deliberately clothing ourselves with an attitude of humility.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility

“It means we believe that God causes all events in our lives, whether good or bad as we judge them, to work together to conform us more and more into the likeness of Christ. It means we give thanks in all circumstances - not for the circumstance considered in itself, but for God's promise to use these circumstances to conform us more to Christ.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility

“It means we believe that God causes all event sin our lives, whether good or bad as we judge them, to work together to conform us more and more into the likeness of Christ. It means we give thanks in all circumstances - not for the circumstance considered in itself, but for God's promise to use these circumstances to conform us more to Christ.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility

“But the reality is that many people are facing nonphysical persecution because of their stand for righteousness.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility

“The perfect righteousness that we pursue is unattainable in this life. But if we hunger and thirst for it and diligently pursue it, over time we will grow more and more into the person God wants us to be.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Blessing of Humility