A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.
J. I. PackerHoly is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
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. PackerIt has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.
J. I. Packer