J.I. Packer Quotes

We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.

Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can't. I want to be a billionaire.

I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.

I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

Randolph Morris on the inside for Kentucky has been too much of a load for Villanova to handle

Kentucky wants to occupy some clock

It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.

This is going to be a long three minutes here.

If you stumble, rise up, go on.

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.

I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."

Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.

Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein.