Quotes from JI Packer
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
— JI Packer
Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
— JI Packer
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.
— JI Packer
God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
— JI Packer
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
— JI Packer
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
— JI Packer
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
— JI Packer
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
— JI Packer
You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
— JI Packer
There are no small sins against a great God.
— JI Packer
In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
— JI Packer
The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration.
— JI Packer