If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Abandoned)
God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Repentance)
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Faith)
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Measure)
The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Adoption)
Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Ministers)
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Die)
Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Judge)
The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)
J.I. Packer (Dealings)
Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God’s dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)