Dave Aru

“Psychologically, faith is our own act, but the theological truth about it is that it is God’s work in us: both our faith, and our new relationship with God as believers, and all the divine gifts that are enjoyed within this relationship, were alike secured for us by Jesus’s death on the cross. For”
― 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

“and so stirs up the impulse to disobey that the more a person sets himself to keep the law the more he finds himself transgressing it.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“your sinful habits and attitudes; your instinct for hypocrisy; your natural self-righteousness and self-reliance; your constant unbelief; your moral frivolity, and shallowness in repentance; your half-heartedness, worldliness, fearfulness, despondency; your spiritual conceit and insensitiveness.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God