Communion Quote by J. I. Packer Download Open image “His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.” — J. I. Packer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communion Conscious Draws Purpose
It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose. — Iyanla Vanzant 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
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put… — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
“Is the Lord’s Supper only for Christians? Whenever I ask this question I immediately remember the character of those that partook of the Last… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“Laymen are not allowed to carry around the blessed Host to throw at people.” — John C Wright Copy Share Image
The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective… — Peter London Copy Share Image
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
