Inspirational Quotes by Charles Bridges
“ignorance is the field, on which the quackery of a political impostor ever reaps its most abundant harvest.”
― Charles Bridges ,
from Proverbs
“It is not easy to overcome our natural love of ease, our indisposition to self-denying devotedness, and our false tenderness in flinching from the declaration of unpalatable truths.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“It is not enough, that there is no poison in the tongue. It must be healing, not only purified from “corrupt communication,” but “ministering grace unto the hearers.”
― Charles Bridges ,
from Proverbs
“The gospel does not shut us up in our own private interests, as if we had no sympathy with our neighbour. It is an universal brotherhood of love.”
― Charles Bridges ,
from Proverbs
“Nowhere throughout the universe do the moral perfections of the Governor of the world shine so gloriously as at the cross”
― Charles Bridges ,
from Proverbs
“He is surely a brute, and not a rational creature, who has swallowed poison, and will rather suffer it to take its course, than admit the necessary relief of medicine, lest he should be obliged to confess his folly, in exposing himself to the need of it.”
― Charles Bridges ,
from Proverbs
“Let us study the minute details of our Master’s well-filled life. He shall deal prudently (Isaiah 52:13.). This was his distinctive character. The Spirit of prudence was the furniture for his work.”
― Charles Bridges ,
from Proverbs
“Among all my conquests’ — said the dying emperor Valentinian — ‘there is but one that now comforts me. I have overcome my worst enemy — my own haughty heart.”
― Charles Bridges ,
from Proverbs
“Never, indeed, does the poverty of the worldling's portion appear more striking, than when contrasted with the enjoyment of the child of God,”
“Except we realize a high estimation of the Church, the constraining influence of the Saviour's love, and the upholding prop of Almighty grace, what is there to preserve us from sinking in despondency?”
― Charles Bridges ,
“Covetousness is far more specious than worldly conformity. It has much to plead under the cover of necessity, justice, prudence, and economy.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“In the Church he " transforms himself into an angel of light" s— exhibiting either the attractive idol of self-righteousness—or that most inveterate form of antichrist—the dependence on the profession of a pure doctrine.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“What a large share of humility, what unceasing supply of Divine grace, is needed to resist a temptation, that falls in so powerfully with the selfish principle of the natural heart!”
― Charles Bridges ,
“No one attains remarkable eminence or success, without a resolute and habitual self-denial in subordinating every secondary point to the primary object.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“The kindness of the world is far more formidable than its enmity. Many, who were prepared to stem the torrent of its opposition, have yielded with compromising indulgence to its paralyzing kindness.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“The contempt also of the Sabbath—the predominant character of pleasure, dissipation, and the general inattention or opposition to religion in the heads of the parish—too often present a hostile front to our course of effort and instruction.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“Thus our whole course is a struggle against the mighty current of sin—flowing out of that restless bias of the natural heart, which upon the highest authority is declared to be " enmity against God.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“THE Church is the mirror, that reflects the whole effulgence of the Divine character. It is the grand scene, in which the perfections of Jehovah are displayed to the universe.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“If a young man has capacity; culture and application may make him a scholar, a philosopher, or an orator; but a true Minister must have certain principles, motives, feelings, and aims, which no industry or endeavours of men can either acquire or communicate. They must be given from above, or they cannot be received.”
― Charles Bridges ,
“When we see the most "able Minister of the New Testament" that the Church has ever known, deeply penetrated, and indeed well-nigh overwhelmed, with the sense of the "necessity laid upon him"—we may well be ashamed, that with qualifications far inferior, our sense of obligation should be less accurate and constraining.”
― Charles Bridges ,
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Charles Bridges was a preacher and theologian in the Church of England, and a leader of that denomination's Evangelical Party. As a preacher he was well-regarded by his contemporaries, but is remembered today for his literary contributions. Educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1817 and served from 1823 to 1849 as vicar of Old Newton, Suffolk.
In 1849, he became vicar of Weymouth, Dorset, later serving as vicar of Hinton Martell, Dorset (c. 1857). Bridges participated (with J. C. Ryle) in the Clerical Conference at Weston-super-Mare of 1858, and also participated in the consecration of the Bishop of Carlisle in York Minster in 1860.
At least twenty-four editions of Bridges' Exposition of Psalm 119 (1827) were published in his lifetime. C. H. Spurgeon considered the commentary to be 'worth its weight in gold'. Spurgeon also pronounced Bridges' Exposition of Proverbs (1840) 'The best work on the Proverbs'.