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 The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people. J. I. Packer holiness christian people Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him. J. I. Packer eye Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven. J. I. Packer heaven mean son The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains. J. I. Packer new-testament incarnation mystery Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get. J. I. Packer inevitable suffering want What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father. J. I. Packer christian answers father We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal. J. I. Packer godly greatness christian If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited. J. I. Packer conceited proud sake But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher. J. I. Packer eye teacher men Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. J. I. Packer dwelling spiritual thinking The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God J. I. Packer humility christian roots A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together. J. I. Packer christian faith wise The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration J. I. Packer adoration holiness soil The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life). J. I. Packer truth-is fruit justified God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness. J. I. Packer unrighteousness reacting wrath The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation. J. I. Packer christmas baby children Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged. J. I. Packer practice giving mean The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him. J. I. Packer destiny angel kings It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit. J. I. Packer powerful clever heart When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping. J. I. Packer scripture limits arguing
