Quotes from J. I. Packer

...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.

It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.