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. J. I. Packer More Quotes by J. I. Packer More Quotes From J. I. Packer The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty. J. I. Packer stars faith night We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan. J. I. Packer light christian law Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come. J. I. Packer life-changing ignorance christian The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times. J. I. Packer character-of-god today character It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true. J. I. Packer staggering sinner should Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine. J. I. Packer doctrine realizing church We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master. J. I. Packer entering lord jesus Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel. J. I. Packer feelings looks thinking Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. J. I. Packer zealous christian natural Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age. J. I. Packer humility real spiritual Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that. J. I. Packer adoption focus would-be There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever. J. I. Packer favors guarantees mind We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear? J. I. Packer ministers complaining today The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist. J. I. Packer holy-spirit holy spirit My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife. J. I. Packer wife husband love-you Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. J. I. Packer making-love wife prayer It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest. J. I. Packer christian sweet father Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize J. I. Packer servant order christ Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers. J. I. Packer offers privilege adoption Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards J. I. Packer missing way son
