Quotes from JI Packer

Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

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

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.