Dave Aru

“God is a better father than this denial allows for: he keeps his children in faith and grace, and will not let them slip from his hand.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“Think of what you know of God through the gospel, says Paul, and apply it. Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; take yourself in hand, talk to yourself, make yourself look up from your problems to the God of the gospel; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking. By this means (so Paul believes) the indwelling Holy Spirit, whose ministry it is to assure us that we are God’s beloved children and heirs (verse 15 f.), will lead us to the point where Paul’s last triumphant inference – ‘I am convinced that neither death, nor life . . . nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord’ (verses 38 f.) – will evoke from us the response: ‘And so am I! hallelujah!”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“Christians who grieve the Spirit by sin, and who fail to seek God with all their heart, must expect to miss the full fruition of this crowning gift of the double witness,”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“The New Testament view is that the death of Christ has actually saved ‘us all’ – all, that is to say, whom God foreknew, and has called and justified, and will in due course glorify. For our faith, which from the human point of view is the means of salvation, is from God’s point of view part of salvation, and is as directly and completely God’s gift to us as is the pardon and peace of which faith lays hold.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God