J. I. Packer Quotes about Heart

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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.

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.

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Kings, Heart, Past

J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

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

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Attitude, Humility, Heart

J. I. Packer (2014). “finishing our course with joy”, p.43, SPCK

It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

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Powerful, Clever, Heart

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.70, InterVarsity Press

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

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Heart, Law, Renewal

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

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Heart, Doe, Theology

We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.

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Prayer, Heart, Responsibility

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.44, InterVarsity Press

Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.

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Heart, Faithful, Needs

J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.314, InterVarsity Press

Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

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Christian, Spring, Heart

J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

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Heart, Desire, Sin

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 WILL stop.

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Heart, Thinking, Knowing

The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

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Character, Heart, Reality

...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.

J. I. Packer

Heart, Hell, Pity