The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.
J. I. PackerThe preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
J. I. PackerTrying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
J. I. PackerGod made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
J. I. PackerThe healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
J. I. Packer