Dave Aru

“Unbroken success often leads to an undervaluing of mercies and forgetfulness of the giver, but the withdrawal of the sunshine leads us to look for the sun.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Jesus in the Hour of Trouble

“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

“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 Spirit leads within the limits which the Word sets, not beyond them. ‘He guides me in paths of righteousness’ – but not anywhere else.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God