J.I. Packer Quotes

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

Politics should seize the imagination.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.

I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like a political figure from another era?

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

There's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes.

I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we simply close the door and say you are beyond redemption.

When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.

When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.

In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.

I think that America is more diverse than ever before, and is continuing to become more diverse, and our content should and is reflecting that.

Obviously, my stuff has been more in the comedy realm, and I really believe that if I'm laughing behind the camera, then I think the film will be funnier.