Quotes from JI Packer
Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
- JI Packer
The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
- JI Packer
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
- JI Packer
You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
- JI Packer
God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
- JI Packer
God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
- JI Packer
Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
- JI Packer
God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
- JI Packer
We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.
- JI Packer
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
- JI Packer
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to 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