Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what… — 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
Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner… — 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
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation. — 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
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
We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves… — 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
