232 Quotes by J.I. Packer

I’m not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger – and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

Wisdom will not go with comforting illusions, false sentiment, or the use of rose-colored glasses.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.

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

What Is the Motive for Evangelizing? There are, in fact, two motives that should spur us constantly to evangelize. The first is love of God and concern for his glory; the second is love of man and concern for his welfare.

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.