232 Quotes by J.I. Packer

Our proud humanism, so-called, has made the world more like hell than heaven.

To know that nothing happens in God’s world apart from God’s will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God’s truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.

The Christian’s instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.

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?

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time...

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty.