232 Quotes by J.I. Packer

The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

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

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

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

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.

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

Only when it is seen that what decides each individual’s destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.

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

But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.