Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing . — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
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… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
