Quotes from JI Packer
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
- JI Packer
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
- JI Packer
Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
- JI Packer
Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
- JI Packer
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
- JI Packer
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
- JI Packer
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
- JI Packer
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent
- JI Packer
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
- JI Packer
The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
- JI Packer
There are no small sins against a great God.
- JI Packer
What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
- JI Packer