J.I. Packer Quotes

God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

History is His story.

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.

It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.

Reverence invites Revelation

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.

New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.

Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let me do what I want.