The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
J. I. PackerGod made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
J. I. PackerThe Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.
J. I. Packer