“ 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
“ We should not...think of our fellowship with other Christians as a spiritual luxury, an optional addition to the exercises of private devotion. We should recognise rather that such fellowship is a spi… 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
“ Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian hope, by contrast, is faith looking ahead to the fulfillment of the promise… 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
“ Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them. J.I. Packer
“ What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WIL… J.I. Packer
“ There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me , so that no discovery can disillusion him about me , in the wa… J.I. Packer
“ What, then, are we to say about the suggestion that a hearty faith in the absolute sovereignty of God is inimical to evangelism? We are bound to say that anyone who makes this suggestion thereby shows… J.I. Packer
“ 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. J.I. Packer
“ Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practi… 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
“ The psalmist [of Psalm 119] was interested in truth and orthodoxy, in biblical teaching and theology, not as ends in themselves, but as means to the further ends of life and godliness. His ultimate co… J.I. Packer
“ To summarize, then, it appears that Christian holiness is a number of things together. It has both outward and inward aspects. Holiness is a matter of both action and motivation, conduct and character… J.I. Packer
“ Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the… J.I. Packer
“ How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before… J.I. Packer
