Holiness Day by Day Quotes

“We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them ...”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“This is devotion to God - the fear of God, which is an attitude of reverence and awe, veneration, and honor toward Him, coupled with an apprehension deep within our souls of the love of God for us, demonstrated preeminently in Christ's atoning death. These two attitudes complement and reinforce each other, producing within our souls an intense desire for this One who is so awesome in His glory and majesty, yet so condescending in His love and mercy.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“God does not believe for us, but through His Spirit He creates spiritual life in us so that we can believe. Faith is the gift of God. It's part of the whole salvation package that God gives to us through the work of Christ for us and the work of the Holy Spirit in us. It's not our contribution, so to speak, to God's great plan of salvation. God does it all. It's part of the unsearchable riches of Christ.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“What was in the cup Jesus drank at His crucifixion? It was the wrath of God.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“All of us have a natural drift toward a performance-based relationship with God. We know we're saved by grace through faith - not by works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but we somehow get the idea that we earn blessings by our works. After throwing overboard our works as a means to salvation, we want to drag them back on board as a means of maintaining favor with God. Instead of seeing our own righteousness as table scraps to be dumped, we see it as leftovers to be used later to earn answers to prayer.
We need to remind ourselves every day that God's blessings and answers to prayer come to us not on the basis of our works, but on the basis of the infinite merit of Jesus Christ.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“when we think the curse for violating God's Law is too severe, it's because we don't understand God or the nature of sin. God”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“God wants us to walk in obedience - not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self. This may seem to be merely splitting hairs over semantics, but there's a subtle, self-centered attitude at the root of many of our difficulties with sin. Until we deal with this attitude, we won't consistently walk in holiness.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“God never grants justification without also giving sanctification at the same time ... Sanctification in us begins as an instantaneous act of the Holy Spirit and is carried forward by His continued action in our lives.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“Scripture speaks of a holiness which we have in Christ before God and a holiness which we must strive after.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God. I”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“We are all sinners and are on an equal plane with one another. So we cannot exercise grace as God does, but we can relate to one another as those who have received grace and who wish to operate on the principles of grace.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“Saying no to ungodliness and worldly passions basically means a decisive break with those attitudes and practices. In one sense, this decisive break is a divine act that occurred when we died to the dominion of sin in our lives. In another sense, we're to work out this breach with sin by putting to death the misdeeds of the body (Romans 8:13).”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“All that Christ did in both His life and death, He did in our place as our substitute.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“This is what faith is -trusting in Jesus Christ alone as one's Savior.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“Humility in every area of life, in every relationship with other people, begins with a right concept of God as the One who is infinite and eternal in His majesty and holiness. We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him. When relationships with people are good and circumstances are favorable, we are to humbly receive these blessings from His gracious hand. When people are mistreating us and circumstances are difficult, we are to humbly accept them as from an infinitely wise and loving heavenly Father.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“If you and I are to appropriate God's grace in our times of need, we must see His sovereignty ultimately ruling in all the circumstances of our lives. And when those circumstances are difficult, disappointing, or humiliating, we must humble ourselves under His mighty hand.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“All fancied sanctification which does not arise wholly from the blood of the cross is nothing better than Pharisaism. If we would be holy, we must get to the cross, and dwell there; else, notwithstanding all our labour, diligence, fasting, praying and good works, we shall be yet void of real sanctification, destitute of those humble, gracious tempers which accompany a clear view of the cross.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional

“When I've experienced the Lord's discipline, Hebrews 12:6 has been a means of restoring joy: "The Lord disciplines the one he loves." When I was once experiencing a severe trial, Psalm 50:15 became a source of comfort: "Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me" (Niv). On another occasion when I thought my future looked bleak, I was enabled to rejoice in the Lord through the assurance of Jeremiah 29:11, "`I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, `plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"' (Niv).”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey Devotional