239 Quotes by J. I. Packer

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

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

There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.