J.I. Packer Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by J.I. Packer
J.I. Packer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
Yet in one sense they can miss it: that is, by failing to focus on it, even when in general terms they are aware of its reality.
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
To be right with God the judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater.
Good works begin with praise, worship, and honoring and exalting of God as the temper of one's whole waking life.
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.
Anyone who is actually following a recognized road will not be too worried if he hears nontravelers telling each other that no such road exists.
To long for total spiritual well-being is right and natural, but to believe that one is anywhere near it is to be utterly self-deceived.
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
Holiness and humanness are correlative terms and mutual implicates (as the logicians would put it). To the
Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.
The most pregnant sentence I have ever heard ... God is sovereign in all things, and all problems find their solution at Calvary.
New Testament writers do not tell me why God chose to save me. They only tell me to be thankful that He did.
The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity.
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
Holy" in both biblical languages means separated and set apart for God, consecrated and made over to Him.
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
There is no holiness without a Christ-centered, Christ-seeking, Christ-serving, Christ-adoring heart.
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
God as a helpless baby, he could only lie, stare, wriggle, make noises. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets!
Genuine holiness is genuine Christlikeness, and genuine Christlikeness is genuine humanness - the only genuine humanness there is.
Gift of wisdom consisting in the power to do this, the gift actually presupposes our conscious inability to do it,