Quotes from J. I. Packer

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

There are no small sins against a great God

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.