J. I. Packer

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.

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.

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.

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.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.

The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.

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

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

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?

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.

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

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.

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.