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What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty. — J.I. Packer

God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness. — J.I. Packer

There are two sorts of sick conciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon. — J.I. Packer

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains. — J.I. Packer

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. — J.I. Packer

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds — J.I. Packer

Our proud humanism, so-called, has made the world more like hell than heaven. — J.I. Packer

I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet. — J.I. Packer

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get. — J.I. Packer

God loves creatures who have become unlovely and (one would have thought) unlovable. — J.I. Packer

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence. — J.I. Packer

New Testament salvation has three tenses: past, present, and future. — J.I. Packer

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind. — J.I. Packer

The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing . — J.I. Packer

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? — J.I. Packer

Holiness is actually the true health of the person. — J.I. Packer

Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world. — J.I. Packer

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent — J.I. Packer

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you. — J.I. Packer

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. — J.I. Packer

Robert Murray McCheyne declared: My people's greatest need is my personal holiness. — J.I. Packer

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. — J.I. Packer

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father. — J.I. Packer

All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me. — J.I. Packer

Moral life becomes a jam session in which at any time I may improvise for myself rather than play the notes in the score. — J.I. Packer

Love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts. — J.I. Packer

A half-truth masquerading as a whole truth becomes a complete untruth — J.I. Packer

Wisdom will not go with comforting illusions, false sentiment, or the use of rose-colored glasses. — J.I. Packer

Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize — J.I. Packer

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. — J.I. Packer

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. — J.I. Packer

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. — J.I. Packer

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true. — J.I. Packer

A deepening sense of one's sinfulness remains a touchstone of the genuine Christian life. — J.I. Packer

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist. — J.I. Packer

Five basic truths, five foundation-principles of the knowledge about God which Christians have, — J.I. Packer

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones. — J.I. Packer

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer. — J.I. Packer

Good works begin with praise, worship, and honoring and exalting of God as the temper of one's whole waking life. — J.I. Packer

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time. — J.I. Packer

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God. — J.I. Packer

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. — J.I. Packer

Prayer to God as Father is for Christians only. — J.I. Packer

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship. — J.I. Packer

So we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it. — J.I. Packer

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me. — J.I. Packer

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine. — J.I. Packer

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets. — J.I. Packer

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again. — J.I. Packer

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology. — J.I. Packer

Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven. — J.I. Packer

God as a helpless baby, he could only lie, stare, wriggle, make noises. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets! — J.I. Packer

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make. — J.I. Packer

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. — J.I. Packer

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship. — J.I. Packer

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart. — J.I. Packer

Holiness starts inside a person, with a right purpose that seeks to express itself in a right performance. — J.I. Packer

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ. — J.I. Packer

Genuine holiness is genuine Christlikeness, and genuine Christlikeness is genuine humanness - the only genuine humanness there is. — J.I. Packer

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself. — J.I. Packer

A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about him. — J.I. Packer

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it. — J.I. Packer

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God. — J.I. Packer

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. — J.I. Packer

Sin is a universal, trans-cultural reality; — J.I. Packer

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. — J.I. Packer

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him. — J.I. Packer

There is no holiness without a Christ-centered, Christ-seeking, Christ-serving, Christ-adoring heart. — J.I. Packer

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. — J.I. Packer

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J.I. Packer

We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel — J.I. Packer

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times. — J.I. Packer

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable. — J.I. Packer

Holiness is always the saved sinner's response of gratitude for grace received. — J.I. Packer

The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity. — J.I. Packer

New Testament writers do not tell me why God chose to save me. They only tell me to be thankful that He did. — J.I. Packer

The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective. — J.I. Packer

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. — J.I. Packer

Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator. — J.I. Packer

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel. — J.I. Packer

God's purpose at the cross was as real as was the guilt of the crucifiers. — J.I. Packer

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him. — J.I. Packer

The most pregnant sentence I have ever heard ... God is sovereign in all things, and all problems find their solution at Calvary. — J.I. Packer

The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled. — J.I. Packer

Rarely does this world look as if a beneficent Providence were running it. — J.I. Packer

Gift of wisdom consisting in the power to do this, the gift actually presupposes our conscious inability to do it, — J.I. Packer

Holy" in both biblical languages means separated and set apart for God, consecrated and made over to Him. — J.I. Packer

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints. — J.I. Packer

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. — J.I. Packer

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited. — J.I. Packer

Our Lord Jesus Christ is both God for man and man for God; — J.I. Packer

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration — J.I. Packer

Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always. — J.I. Packer

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation. — J.I. Packer

There are no small sins against a great God — J.I. Packer

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking. — J.I. Packer

Read two old books for every new one. — J.I. Packer

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. — J.I. Packer

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications. — J.I. Packer

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping. — J.I. Packer