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 More Quotes by J. I. Packer More Quotes From J. I. Packer God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make. J. I. Packer prayer made answers 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. J. I. Packer dealings rejoice behinds God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion. J. I. Packer prayer wise mean In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. J. I. Packer men mean moving If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all. J. I. Packer prayer father children We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent J. I. Packer dishonor savior discontent [N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final. J. I. Packer eye mind jesus Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul. J. I. Packer understanding knowing soul There are no small sins against a great God J. I. Packer sin God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it. J. I. Packer together father son Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind. J. I. Packer mind feelings joy What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? J. I. Packer imagination goal christian He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity. J. I. Packer lessons sin two God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning. J. I. Packer christian-inspirational christian made This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology. J. I. Packer new-testament theology grace The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character. J. I. Packer ministry giving character What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty. J. I. Packer sovereignty impotence praying God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives. J. I. Packer work-out church humble The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere. J. I. Packer found children ideas A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him. J. I. Packer loving-god knowledge-of-god littles
