J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 2

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

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

I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.

Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

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

There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

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

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

There are no small sins against a great God

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

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

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.