J. I. Packer

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

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.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

There are no small sins against a great God

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).

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

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.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

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.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

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.

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

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.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.