J. I. Packer Quotes About Knowing God

Quotes about: Knowing God

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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  What Matters, Analysis, Lasts

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

• 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

• There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

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  Determination, Discovery, Knowing

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

• Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

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  Mean, Goal, Together

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.117, InterVarsity Press

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Things In Life, Giving

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

  J. I. Packer

  Knowing, Relief, His Love

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

• Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

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  Knowing, Understanding, Soul

• Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

  J. I. Packer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Dwelling

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

• What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

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  Christian, Imagination, Goal

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

• Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

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  Study, Blunders, Disregard

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.19, InterVarsity Press

• There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

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  Son, Order, Desire

• Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.

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  Doctrine, Study, Attributes

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

• A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

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  Littles, Knowledge Of God, Loving God

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.37, InterVarsity Press

• You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

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  Knowing God, Stills, Knows

• For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

  J. I. Packer

  Goal, Knowing God, Higher

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

• To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

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  Love Is, Heaven, Earth

  J. I. Packer (1993). “Knowing God Study Guide”, p.21, InterVarsity Press

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