God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith. J. I. Packer More Quotes by J. I. Packer More Quotes From J. I. Packer We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel J. I. Packer moving Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. J. I. Packer resilience creativity maturity Only when you know how to die can you know how to live. J. I. Packer know-how dies knows Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. J. I. Packer moaning repentance knows 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. J. I. Packer track sheep jobs Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual. J. I. Packer salvation would-be christ Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven. J. I. Packer shots sin needs There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion. J. I. Packer self-absorbed self We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means. J. I. Packer mean ideas jesus 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. J. I. Packer biblical simple commitment Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance. J. I. Packer inheritance criminals transition The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel. J. I. Packer preacher whole crosses 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. J. I. Packer christian heart spring The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all. J. I. Packer intellectual spirit christian God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. J. I. Packer weakness pain use There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets. J. I. Packer denial speak self 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. J. I. Packer desire order son The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross. J. I. Packer father years jesus The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing . J. I. Packer faithful church christian We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further. J. I. Packer commandments human-life humans
