The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation… — 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
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
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation… — 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
This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology. — 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
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
