What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsรขยยthe meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.
J. I. PackerIf one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
J. I. PackerN.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
J. I. PackerIf we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
J. I. PackerOur best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
J. I. PackerThe words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.
J. I. Packer