The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of… — 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
It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove… — 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
