If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither.… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsâthe meaning of life and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. — 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
Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for… — 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
