J. I. Packer Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• 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

  Moving, Mean, Men

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.291, InterVarsity Press

• This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

  J. I. Packer

  Grace, New Testament, Theology

  J. I. Packer (1997). “Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional”, Servant Publications

• Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

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  Fall, Leaving, Darkness

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Sweet, Pain, Healing

• Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Destiny, Views

• I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).

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  Believe, Grace, Needs

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.136, InterVarsity Press

• The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

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  Grace, Merit, Guilty

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.196, InterVarsity Press

• Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.

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  Mistake, Home, Blessing

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.212, Hachette UK

• 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

  Mean, Son, Heaven

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.249, InterVarsity Press

• God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do not hear it, and moving some of those who hear it to repentance while leaving others in their unbelief, thus teaching his saints that hew owes mercy to none and that it is entirely of his grace, not at all through their own effort, that they themselves have found life.

  J. I. Packer

  Teaching, Moving, Effort

• To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

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  Biblical, Grace, Favors

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.131, InterVarsity Press

• 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

• We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

  J. I. Packer

  Grace, Calling, His Love

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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