N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge… — 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
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved… — 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
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love;… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation. — 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
In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again. — 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
The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ. — 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
