239 Quotes by J. I. Packer

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.