The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that. J. I. Packer More Quotes by J. I. Packer More Quotes From J. I. Packer Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet. J. I. Packer amazed internet people The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life for which the gospel calls will not be understood, and the required total shift from man-centeredness to God-centeredness, and more specifically from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness, will not take place. J. I. Packer self men father A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct. J. I. Packer holy simple spirit What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop. J. I. Packer knowing heart thinking There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon. J. I. Packer sick sin two The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform. J. I. Packer christian men mean N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds J. I. Packer foreground backgrounds If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward. J. I. Packer mistake supposing-that thinking We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior. J. I. Packer majesty too-much thinking Our are speculations are not the measure of our God. J. I. Packer speculation The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me. J. I. Packer indirect profound book Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent. J. I. Packer agents moral men The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything. J. I. Packer men book thinking It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure. J. I. Packer gratitude talking giving The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God. J. I. Packer peace-with-god firsts You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God. J. I. Packer knowing-god stills knows Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal. J. I. Packer religious christian past Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. J. I. Packer endeavor calvinism lord In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything. J. I. Packer cost honesty facts It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action. J. I. Packer guarantees men lying
