"If our society needs to reemphasise the virtue of honesty, it certainly needs to place great importance on dependability. Dependability has taken a decided backseat to personal desire or convenience. ‘I’ll keep that commitment if it’s convenient’ seems to be the attitude of the age … God wants us to be dependable even when it costs us (Ps 15:4). This is what distinguishes godly faithfulness from the ordinary dependability of secular society."

Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness

"To paraphrase a writer from a pervious century, so often when we sin we are more vexed at the lowering of our self-esteem than we are grieved at God’s dishonour. We are irritated at our lack of self-control in subjecting ourselves to some unworthy habit. We are unable to stand the disappointment of seeing ourselves fail.
God does not honour these self-centred desires … God does not give us his power so that we might feel good about ourselves; He gives us His power so that we can obey Him for His sake, for His glory."

Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness.

"To be joyful is to experience the power of the Holy Spirit within us and to say to a watching world, “Our God reigns."

Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness. 
I think I’ve hardly ever thought about the purpose of joy. Yet that’s half of what Bridges discussed in this chapter. Excellent!

"We evangelicals are not noted for our humility about our doctrines - our beliefs about what the Bible teaches in various areas of theology. Whatever position we take in a specific area of theology, we tend to feel that our position is airtight and that anyone holding a different view is altogether wrong. We tend to be quite impatient with anyone who differs from us. Ironically, the more our views come from the teaching of someone else instead of from the Bible istelf, the more rigidly we tend to hold these views.
It is one thing to be persuaded that what we believe is correct as we understand the Scriptures; it is quite another to believe that our views are always correct."

Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness.

"In our daily experience, we have all sorts of spiritual ups and downs - sin, failure, discouragement - all of which tend to make us question God’s love. That is because we keep thinking that God’s love is somehow conditional. We are afraid to believe His love is based entirely upon the finished work of Christ for us. Deep down in our souls we must get hold of the wonderful truth that our spiritual failures do not affect God’s love for us one iota - that His love for us does not fluctuate according to our experience."

Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness.