"Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones."
- J.I. Packer
"The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity."
"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 practi..."
"He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity."
"What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WIL..."
"Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him."
"Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives. As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesmen to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leav..."
"Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator."
"How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before ..."
"What, then, are we to say about the suggestion that a hearty faith in the absolute sovereignty of God is inimical to evangelism? We are bound to say that anyone who makes this suggestion thereby shows..."