J.I. Packer Quotes

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.

The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what’s there. . . .

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.

The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.

Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.

The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

Read two old books for every new one.

I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.