Quotes from J. I. Packer

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

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.

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.

Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.