J.I. Packer

Quotes

• “Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is...”
• “What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to g...”
• “J.I. Packer writes, “It [knowing God] is the most practical project anyone can engage in. Knowing about God is crucially...”
• “The psalmist [of Psalm 119] was interested in truth and orthodoxy, in biblical teaching and theology, not as ends in the...”
• “There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of th...”
• “Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins...”
• “How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is th...”
• “Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you ...”
• “The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rathe...”
• “What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought o...”
• “Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into pla...”
• “He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons...”
• “Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad on...”
• “What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.”
• “Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.”
• “There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.”
• “Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.”