Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
J. I. PackerWisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
J. I. PackerThink against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
J. I. PackerThe battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
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