Humans Quotes by J. I. Packer

10 Humans quotes by J. I. Packer

If you’re curious about how J. I. Packer perceives the human condition, this short set offers a glimpse into his perspective. Though modest in number, each line invites you to pause and consider the nuances of our shared experience.

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We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

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The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly…

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Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually…

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The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like…

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What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal…

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Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically:…

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Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of…

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It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us…

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The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech…

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It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove…

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What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -…

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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

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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…

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Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God…

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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

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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…

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Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

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There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

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Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against…

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Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the…

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God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is…

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It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and…

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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

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