We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.
Jerry BridgesThe cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and...want to give up or try to work something out on our own.
Jerry BridgesGod makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
Jerry BridgesEvery day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
Jerry BridgesNothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.
Jerry Bridges