I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer. J. I. Packer More Quotes by J. I. Packer More Quotes From J. I. Packer Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship. J. I. Packer scripture matter men The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory. J. I. Packer angel goal men The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. J. I. Packer merit guilty grace Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded. J. I. Packer disregard blunders study The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead. J. I. Packer peace-with-god doe firsts The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study. J. I. Packer issues biblical teaching 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. J. I. Packer biblical destiny views The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty. J. I. Packer greatness church christian Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world. J. I. Packer missed-you world William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish. J. I. Packer blessed evil men It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation. J. I. Packer christian men lying Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it. J. I. Packer goal together mean 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. J. I. Packer analysis what-matters lasts Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is. J. I. Packer blessing mistake home Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God. J. I. Packer expression prayer men There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. J. I. Packer stressed judging reality We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us. J. I. Packer responsibility prayer heart Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology. J. I. Packer fundamentals doe song What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsâthe meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible. J. I. Packer life-and-death loneliness self Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way. J. I. Packer holiness saint people
