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

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  Knowing God, Stills, Knows

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• The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

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  Action, Trinity, Bases

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• The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

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  Son, Order, Might

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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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• What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

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  Doe, Eternity, Carrie

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.80, InterVarsity Press

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• We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

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  Dishonor, Discontent, Savior

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• The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

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  Simple, Religion, Utterance

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.298, InterVarsity Press

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• There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

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  Self, Denial, Speak

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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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• There are no small sins against a great God

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  Sin

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.97, Baker Books

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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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• There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.

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  Mind, Guarantees, Favors

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.43, InterVarsity Press

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