J.I. Packer Quotes

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

There are no small sins against a great God

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

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.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.