Quotes from J. I. Packer

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

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 to Him.

Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

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

The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

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

Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration