232 Quotes by J.I. Packer

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

What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world – ‘I don’t ever want this to stop’ – will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop.

To be right with God the judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater.

Rarely does this world look as if a beneficent Providence were running it.

God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God’s near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it’s bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it.