What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically:… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually… — 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 Image
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 Image
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
