Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
J. I. PackerTo know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
J. I. PackerOur aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.
J. I. PackerIt is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action.
J. I. Packer