The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

- J. I. Packer

...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.

- J. I. Packer

The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much d…

- J. I. Packer

God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells u…

- J. I. Packer

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those wh…

- J. I. Packer

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 …

- J. I. Packer

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

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…

- J. I. Packer

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

- J. I. Packer