J.I. Packer Wisdom

Wisdom from J. I. Packer (1926–2020), world-renowned theologian, author, and teacher. Tweets from @ivpress.

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"A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.”
― J.I. Packer, Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God

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"The kind of wisdom that God waits to give to those who ask him is a wisdom that will bind us to himself, a wisdom that will find expression in a spirit of faith and a life of faithfulness.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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“Historical exegesis is only the preliminary part of interpretation; application is its essence. Exegesis without application should not be called interpretation at all.”
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“All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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“To be right with God the judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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“Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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“There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery can disillusion him about me in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself."
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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“He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.”
― J.I. Packer, Faithfulness and Holiness: The Witness of J.C. Ryle

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“Live each day as if thy last” is a wise word from a hymn written in 1674 by Thomas Ken. The older we get, the more needful its wisdom becomes, and if we have not already taken it to heart, we should do so now.”
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“Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.”
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“The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration”
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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.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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"Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfold, as it were, with no sense of direction, and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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"‘Father’ is the Christian name for God. Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better than our grasp of adoption.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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“For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

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“Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.”
― J.I. Packer, '18 Words: The Most Important Words You Will Ever Know'

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“Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.” ― J.I. Packer

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"Like thousands of other pastors, I can say that Packer's work and witness are of inestimable value to me. He was a master of making the divide between doctrine and piety disappear."

@DZRishmawy, @UCIrvine

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"Packer was magisterial in substance, but adopted the tone of a fellow traveler. He convinced us that the study of God 'is the most practical project anyone can engage in.'"

@CTmagazine, "The Top 50 Books That Have Shaped Evangelicals"

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"J. I. Packer's primary legacy is the influence he held over events in Christendom and over people's lives during his lifetime. . . . J. I. Packer gave evangelicals a place to stand in regard to the authority of the Bible."

—Leland Ryken, @CTmagazine, obituary, July 2020