J. I. Packer Quotes About Sovereignty

Quotes about: Sovereignty

• Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

  J. I. Packer

  Humble, Divine Wisdom, Mind

• Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Scripture, Matter

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

  J. I. Packer

  Praying, Sovereignty, Impotence

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

• The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Men, Order

• Im 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Process, Sovereignty, Publication

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