Esther Tez

“when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God”
― Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

“Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.”
― Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

“He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it.4”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“One of the speaker’s main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God’s agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God’s, and that the tension between them sets up stress.”
― Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts