J. I. Packer
I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.Collection: Moving
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
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.
I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.Collection: Differences
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace.Collection: Sweet
Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.Collection: Calling
There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.Collection: Knowing
What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.Collection: Jesus
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.Collection: Christian
The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Fall
I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.Collection: Eye
The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.Collection: Character
Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.Collection: Trust
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.Collection: Christian
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.Collection: Sight
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.Collection: Rejoice
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.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Moving
Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God is my Father; heaven is my home; every day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is my brother too. Say it over and over again to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time when your mind is free, and ask God that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completely true. For this is the Christians secret of the Christian life, of a God-honouring life.Collection: Christian
The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of livingCollection: Attitude
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.Collection: Christian
Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.Collection: Know How
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.Collection: Knowing
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.Collection: Hypocrite
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.Collection: Stronger
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.Collection: Determination
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.Collection: Doe
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.Collection: Study
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.Collection: Heart
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?Collection: Complaining
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.Collection: Humble
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).Collection: Fruit
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.Collection: Mean
Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.Collection: Complaints
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.Collection: Pain
The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.Collection: Christian
The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adorationCollection: Holiness
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.Collection: Christian
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from itCollection: Doe
[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.Collection: Jesus
God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.Collection: Way
Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.Collection: Joy