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
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by… — 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 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
The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically:… — 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
Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal… — 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
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel… — 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
God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask… — 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
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsâthe meaning of life and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian… — 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
