To do what others do when, deep down, one knows it is wrong is moral cowardice, which does not lessen guilt but increases it.
— J. I. Packer
Revelation
Revelation is a divine activity; not, therefore, a human achievement. Revelation is not the same thing as discovery or the dawning of insight, or the emerging of a bright idea. Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing his secrets with us, God showing us himself.
— J. I. Packer
Meditation
Meditation is not giving free rein to your imagination, nor is it reading your Bible for beautiful thoughts. Meditation is a discipline.
— J. I. Packer
Full Meaning of the Cross
It cannot be over-emphasized that we have not seen the full meaning of the cross till we have seen it… as the center of the gospel, flanked on the one hand by total inability and unconditional surrender and on the other by irresistible grace and final preservation.
— J. I. Packer
Faith
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
— J. I. Packer
