J. I. Packer Quotes About Repentance

Quotes about: Repentance

• Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Spring, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

• Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

  J. I. Packer

  Kings, Heart, Past

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

• There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

  J. I. Packer

  Self, Denial, Speak

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Mean, Practice, Giving

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.87, Baker Books

• 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

• Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

  J. I. Packer

  Repentance, Moaning, Knows

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