J. I. Packer Quotes About Holy Spirit

Quotes about: Holy Spirit

• Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

  J. I. Packer

  Church, Would Be, World

• The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

  J. I. Packer

  Character, Giving, Ministry

• The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Intellectual, Spirit

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.15, Baker Books

• 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

  Simple, Spirit, Holy

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.54, InterVarsity Press

• 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

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.70, InterVarsity Press

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Son, Together

• The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

  J. I. Packer

  Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Spirit, Sin

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