Best Quotes from Trusting God by Jerry Bridges with Page Numbers

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me. PSALM 50:15

Life is difficult.

When friends and loved ones hurt, we hurt.

Can I trust God when adversity strikes and fills your life with pain?

Even creation itself, Paul tells us, has been subjected to frustration and groans as in the pain of childbirth.

It is only in the Scriptures that we find an adequate view of God's relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances.

God in His love always wills what is best for us.

In His wisdom He always knows what is best.

In His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

To know God's name is to know Him in an intimate, personal way.

God ... is the blessed controller of all things, the king over all kings and the master of all masters.

God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe that just as certainly as God will allow nothing to subvert His glory, so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

Nothing, not even the smallest virus, escapes His care and control.

The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling.

All evil is subject to Him, and evil cannot touch His children unless He permits it.

No detail of our lives is too insignificant for our heavenly Father's attention; no circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.

His ways are higher than our ways... His judgments are unsearchable, and His paths are beyond tracing out.

The mighty Roman Empire could not crucify Jesus Christ unless God gave it that power.

In the midst of our suffering we can rest in the knowledge that He is sovereign.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.

God sovereignly intervenes in the hearts of people so that they make decisions and carry out actions that accomplish His purpose for our lives.

We see in the New Testament as well that God moves sovereignly in people's lives.

The stubborn will of the most powerful ruler on earth is directed by God as easily as the farmer directs the flow of water in his irrigation canals.

Are you dependent upon your boss (or your commanding officer) for advancement in your career? God will move in the heart of your boss or commander one way or the other, depending on God's plan for you.

God never allows people to make decisions about us that undermine His plan for us.

God does not always restrain the wicked and harmful actions of others.

We should then look to God in prayer in all those situations where some aspect of our futures lies in the hands of another individual.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

"Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this."

"God has not walked away from the day-to-day control of His creation."

"The believer is never the victim of the powers of nature or fate. Chance is eliminated."

"When we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather."

"God controls all the forces of nature, both destructive and productive, on a continuous, moment-by-moment basis."

"All expressions of nature, all occurrences of weather, whether it be a devastating tornado or a gentle rain on a spring day, are acts of God."

"His infinite wisdom and perfect love have determined that the particular sorrow is best for us."

"God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish His purpose."

"To truly accept our pain and heartache has the connotation of willingness."

"Though he did not understand what God was doing, he would trust Him."

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible to pray with confidence.

Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers.

The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.

In every respect, we are dependent upon God to enable us and prosper our efforts.

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.

We are absolutely dependent upon God but, at the same time, we are responsible to diligently use whatever means are appropriate for the occasion.

Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God, as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

All of our plans, all of our efforts, and all of our prudence is of no avail unless God prospers those means.

There is no conflict between trusting God and accepting our responsibility.

Let us hold equally to both, doing our duty as it is revealed to us in the Scriptures and trusting God to sovereignly work out His purpose in us and through us.

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!

God does not make mistakes in our lives.

His wisdom is intuitive, infinite, and infallible: 'His understanding has no limit' (Psalm 147:5).

The best possible end of all of God's actions is ultimately His glory.

God is able to take all of these elements—the bad as well as the good—and make full use of everything and everyone.

God's infinite wisdom then is displayed in bringing good out of evil, beauty out of ashes.

The good that God works for in our lives is conformity to the likeness of His Son.

God disciplines us for our good. There is no agonizing by God, no hoping He has made the right decision.

God's wisdom is fathomless; His decisions are unsearchable.

An unreserved trust of God, when we don't understand what is happening or why, is the only road to peace and comfort and joy.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

God is love.

If God loved me enough to give His Son to die for me when I was His enemy, surely He loves me enough to care for me now that I am His child.

God's love cannot fail.

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken.

He delights in us as a father delights in his children.

Even in their judgments, He was with them.

Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it.

In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

The adversities of life are much like the cocoon of the cecropia moth. God uses them to develop the spiritual 'muscle system' of our lives.

The development of a beautiful Christlike character will not occur in our lives without adversity.

God does not ask us to rejoice because we have lost our job, or a loved one has been stricken with cancer... But He does tell us to rejoice because we believe He is in control of those circumstances.

The Christian life is intended to be one of continuous growth.

God wants us to do more than simply endure our trials; He wants us to remember them as His disciplines — His means of bringing about growth in our lives.

God uses adversity to loosen our grip on those things that are not true fruit.

Adversity enhances the teaching of God's Word and makes it more profitable to us.

God uses adversity to enlighten our minds about our own needs as well as the teachings of Scripture.

For the believer, all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable.

When I am afraid, I will trust in You.

Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Trusting God is first of all a matter of the will, and is not dependent on my feelings.

I will trust You though I do not feel like doing so.

God is absolutely trustworthy.

Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God.

The promises of God must be true; surely the Lord will help me, if I am willing to be helped!

Our trust must be in Him and Him alone.

When I am afraid, I will trust in you.

"The day I had dreaded all my life became the doorway to real renewal."

"Death makes it clear that each day of life is an opulent gift."

"When we gain our reference point for all things from His cosmic grandeur and holiness-rather than from within ourselves-He will hear us up."

"Thanksgiving is an admission of dependence."

"Everything we are and have we owe to His bountiful grace."

"We are to give thanks in all circumstances, both the good and the bad."

"God is at work in all things for our good."

"God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation."

"Worship involves a two-directional view; looking upward at God's majesty and recognizing our dependence upon Him."

"The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice."