The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is… — 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
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
Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do… — 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
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
The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation… — 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
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
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
It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or… — 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
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being… — 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
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
If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time... — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God… — 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
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
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
Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and… — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
