Quotes from JI Packer
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
- JI Packer
Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
- JI Packer
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
- JI Packer
The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration.
- JI Packer
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
- JI Packer
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
- JI Packer
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.
- JI Packer
My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
- JI Packer
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
- JI Packer
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
- JI Packer
The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
- JI Packer
There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
- JI Packer