J. I. Packer Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

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

  J. I. Packer

  Calling, Glory, Power Of God

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

• The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Father, Years

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.35, InterVarsity Press

• Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Men, Expression

• The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

  J. I. Packer

  Angel, Men, Goal

• It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Men, Self

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

  J. I. Packer

  People, Saint, Holiness

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.88, Baker Books

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