Keep in Step with the Spirit Quotes

“Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.”
― J.I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God

“Those who know that glossolalia is not God’s path for them and those for whom it is a proven enrichment should neither try to impose their own way on others, nor judge others inferior for being different, nor stagger if someone in their camp transfers to the other, believing that God has led him or her to do so. Those who pray with tongues and those who pray without tongues do it to the Lord; they stand or fall to their own master, not their fellow-servants; and in the same sense that there is in Christ neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, so in Christ there is neither glossolalist nor non-glossolalist.”
― J.I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God

“Getting God in focus means thinking correctly about his character, his sovereignty, his salvation, his love, his Son, his Spirit, and all the realities of his work and ways; it also means thinking rightly about our own relationship to him as creatures either under sin or under grace, either living this responsive life of faith, hope, and love or living unresponsively, in barrenness and gloom of heart.”
― J.I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God

“As Jesus was law incarnate, so he was love incarnate, and following his way of self-giving is holiness in its purest and most perfect expression. Hard, harsh, cold-hearted holiness is a contradiction in terms... Without love anything purporting to be holiness is in God's sight nothing: In other words, it is a hollow sham.”
― J.I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God

“As Jesus was law incarnate, so he was love incarnate, and following his way of self-giving is holiness in its purest and most perfect expression. Hard, harsh, cold-hearted holiness is a contradiction in terms... Without love anything purporting to be holiness is in God's is nothing. In other words, it is a hollow sham.”
― J.I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God

“La santidad es, en una palabra, una semejanza a Cristo enseñada por Dios y forjada por el Espíritu, la suma y la sustancia de un discipulado comprometido, la demostración de la fe obrando por amor, la irradiación consiguiente en justicia de la vida sobrenatural desde el corazón de los nacidos de nuevo.”
― J.I. Packer, Caminar en sintonía con el Espíritu: Cómo encontrar la plenitud en nuestro andar con Dios