William Bridge Quotes

“The more you see Christ walking in the sweet shades of divine love toward poor sinners, the sooner will your faith revive, and your comforts be restored.”

“A praying man can never be very miserable, whatever his condition be, for he has the ear of God.”

“As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer.”

“In the time of His presence we have the sense of His love to us. But in the time of His absence then He sees, and we ourselves have the sense of, our love to Him.”

“God doth never more graciously appear to his people, than when there is the greatest matter for their discouragement.”

“God hath provided promises of comfort, succour and relief, suitable to all conditions: I dare boldly challenge all men, to shew me any one condition, which God hath not provided a promise of comfort, mercy and succour suitable unto it.”

“Thus doth God, with whom are reserves of mercies, reserve his sweetest consolations, for the time of our sourest afflictions, and doth temper the one with the other in most fit proportion.”

“never lay your comforts upon your condition, nor be in love with any condition for itself; let not your condition itself be the cause or bottom of your encouragements.”

“It stands not with the justice of God to exact the payment of one debt twice.”

“It is my duty, and I have reason to be humbled for my sin, although it be never so small; but I have no reason to be discouraged under my sin, though it be never so great.”

“We do not live by feeling, but by faith: it is the duty of a Christian to begin with faith, and so to rise up to feeling: you would begin with feeling, and so come down to faith; but you must begin with faith, and so rise up to feeling.”

“A strong Christian will use that for his edification which seems to be against him; but the weak Christian will use that against himself which is in truth for him.”

“Discouragement itself is a sin, another sin, a Gospel sin; now my sin against the Law, is not just cause why I should sin against the Gospel.”

“The happiness which the Lord Jesus procured for believers, includes a perfect freedom from sin, and all afflictive evils, their just consequence, and the fruition of righteousness, peace and joy, in which the kingdom of God consists.”

“Mercy is the special commendation of divine love.”

“It is meditation that makes you master of the truths that you read or hear; otherwise, the wisdom remains in the book.”

“The reason we meditate little is because we love God little.”

“Knowledge brings us to the door of truth, but meditation opens the door to the house and takes us into all its rooms. This is the way to enter into the secret places of the things of God.”

“What is the reason that men do not grow in grace? It is because sermons, like loads of fertilizer, are laid on the soul but remain unspread by the hand of meditation.”

“Though you read much and hear much, if you do not meditate on what you read and hear, it will amount to little; you will never be any the wiser.”

“The more the heart of any man is devoted to meditation, the more pregnant his words will be in the praises of God.”

“In Christ crucified, you may see a full answer . . . to all your needs, to all your fears, to all your doubts.”

“Would you love Christ, use him much, and then more you will prize him, and more you will love him.”

“Do you complain of a hard heart? The sight of a broken Christ will break your heart, or nothing will.”

“Even though divine mysteries exist, this is not a sufficient plea to be ignorant of God's ways and will.”

“When a man is truly humbled and grieved for sin, the object of his grief is sin, as a dishonour done unto God: when a man is discouraged and not humbled, then his trouble is all about his condition, and what will become of him.”