J. I. Packer Quotes

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• 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.

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  Differences, Knowing, Contentment

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace.

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  Sweet, Pain, Healing

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• Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

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  Calling, Glory, Power Of God

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.69, Baker Books

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• There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

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  Knowing, Relief, His Love

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.

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  Christian, Meditation, Healthy

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

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  Christian, Saint, World

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

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  Jesus, Things In Life, Giving

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• Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

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  Fall, Problem, Accord

  "Knowing God". Book by James Packer, 1973.

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• I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

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  Eye, Knowing, Hands

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.7, InterVarsity Press

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• The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

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  Character, Giving, Ministry

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• God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Made

  Dr J I Packer (1987). “Hot Tub Religion”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.

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  Trust, Light, Giving

  "Knowing God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1973.

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• The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.

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  Judging, Savior

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• We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

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  Complaining, Today, Ministers

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• God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

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  Prayer, Answers, Made

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• God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.

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  Father, Son, Scripture

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• Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

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  Rejoice, Behinds, Dealings

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.177, InterVarsity Press

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

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  Pain, Weakness, Use

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• 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.

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  Sight, Realizing, Moments

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.88, InterVarsity Press

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• Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.

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  Mean, Son, Heaven

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.249, InterVarsity Press

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• The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

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  Peace With God, Firsts

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.110, InterVarsity Press

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• A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

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  Half, Truth Is, Whole

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• Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

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  Spiritual, Reading, Way

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• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

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  Stronger, Body, Waste

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

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  Crosses, Preacher, Whole

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