J. I. Packer Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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

• God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

  J. I. Packer

  Humble, Work Out, Church

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.106, 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Order, Desire

• Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Foundation, Purpose

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.92, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

  J. I. Packer

  Purpose, Conscious, Communion

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.84, Hachette UK

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