A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time... — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share
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… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
