232 Quotes by J.I. Packer

Read two old books for every new one.

The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.

The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

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

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

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

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.