J. I. Packer

Quotations from the Rev. Canon Dr. J. I. Packer (1926–2020): Puritan, theological exegete, and latter-day catechist.

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If your joy matches my joy as we continue in our Christian lives, you will be blessed indeed.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Theologians are the church's plumbers and sewage men, securing a flow of pure truth and eliminating theological effluent.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

If your joy matches my joy as we continue in our Christian lives, you will be blessed indeed.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Holiness is essentially a happy business.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

The Puritans exemplified maturity; we don’t.

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Real enjoyment is integral to real godliness.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Psalms teach us how to worship;
Proverbs, how to behave;
Job, how to suffer,
Song of Solomon, how to love;
Ecclesiastes; how to live.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

The end of walking Godward is that fellowship with God becomes a real and rich reality, more and more, as one lives the life of repentance.

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[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

If your joy matches my joy as we continue in our Christian lives, you will be blessed indeed.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

One way of judging the quality of theologies is to see what sort of devotion they produce.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Readiness to die is the first step in learning to live.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity find out how much he makes of having God as his Father.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Pleasure is designed to raise our sense of God's goodness, deepen our gratitude to him, and strengthen our hope of richer pleasures to come.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

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.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

The Lord’s Day reminds us that God is the owner and Lord of all things, and we should set aside a special time to worship Him and seek His will for our lives.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

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.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

I am so thankful for the penal substitutionary death of Christ. No hope without it.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Christianity rests on the certainty of Jesus’ resurrection as a space-time occurrence in history.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

If you ask, "Why is this happening?" no light may come, but if you ask, "How am I to glorify God now?" there will always be an answer.