Packer Quotes

#1. I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.

George Packer

#2. I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.

Boyd K. Packer

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

J.I. Packer

#4. Holiness is the object of our new creation. We are born again so that we may grow up into Christlikeness.

J.I. Packer

#5. In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.

Toni Packer

#6. The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

J.I. Packer

#7. As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

James Packer

#8. Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training and discipline, planned by my Heavenly Father to help me forward along the path of Chrislike virtue.

J.I. Packer

#9. A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

Boyd K. Packer

#10. A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

J.I. Packer

#11. How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.

J.I. Packer

#12. In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.

George Packer

#13. Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."

Boyd K. Packer

#14. God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.

J.I. Packer

#15. Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

James Packer

#16. This is what all the work of grace aims at - an ever deeper knowledge of God, and an ever closer fellowship with him. Grace is God drawing us sinners closer and closer to himself.

J.I. Packer

#17. The word discipline sometimes touches a slightly rebellious chord in our natures. Remember that it comes from the word disciple.

Boyd K. Packer

#18. I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.

Boyd K. Packer

#19. If it was your fault, then you weren't powerless
you weren't at the mercy of stuff just happening."
"Your always going to be at thee mercy of stuff just happening, no matter what.

Ann Packer

#20. The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

J.I. Packer

#21. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.

Boyd K. Packer

#22. We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

James Packer

#23. You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.

Boyd K. Packer

#24. Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

J.I. Packer

#25. A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.

Boyd K. Packer

#26. Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein.

Boyd K. Packer

#27. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

J.I. Packer

#28. My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.

James Packer

#29. However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

Boyd K. Packer

#30. Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.

Boyd K. Packer

#31. As signs of inadequacy and weakness, they look on wealth as a source of stability and strength. Our proud hearts shrink from weakness, real or fancied, in all its forms, as we have already noted, and they embrace whatever looks like strength, including the goal and the reality of affluence. The

J.I. Packer

#32. Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Boyd K. Packer

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

J.I. Packer

#34. We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

James Packer

#35. Prayer to God as Father is for Christians only.

J.I. Packer

#36. To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

J.I. Packer

#37. We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

J.I. Packer

#38. Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

J.I. Packer

#39. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

Boyd K. Packer

#40. I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

James Packer

#41. The problem came down to this: Americans, who had invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the integrated circuit, no longer believed in the future.

George Packer

#42. There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

J.I. Packer

#43. People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time.

James Packer

#44. The Roman Empire, born out the Roman Republic, with its ideas of democracy among a certain group of wealthy men (no vote for men without land -as with our Founding Fathers- and certainly no vote for women and slaves. Why are democracies built on top of one form of slavery or another?)

Tina Packer

#45. Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

J.I. Packer

#46. Not eating meat really keeps me trim ... meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.

Olivia Wilde

#47. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

Margo Kingston

#48. Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

J.I. Packer

#49. Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

Ann Packer

#50. I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Kerry Packer

#51. Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

J.I. Packer

#52. Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

J.I. Packer

#53. Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.

Boyd K. Packer

#54. Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

J.I. Packer

#55. [O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn't much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate's mood.

George Packer

#56. We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

Toni Packer

#57. 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.

J.I. Packer

#58. Rarely does this world look as if a beneficent Providence were running it.

J.I. Packer

#59. New Testament writers do not tell me why God chose to save me. They only tell me to be thankful that He did.

J.I. Packer

#60. I used to be an over-packer! It took me a while to be smart about what I brought with me. I used to tour with a huge bag full of clothes and another one full of shoes because I wanted to have choices. And I ended up wearing the same pair of shoes all the time!

Juliana Hatfield

#61. There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose.

J.I. Packer

#62. Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer

#63. Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.

Boyd K. Packer

#64. I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."3

Alistair Begg

#65. I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brett Favre

#66. If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

Boyd K. Packer

#67. Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

Boyd K. Packer

#68. Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

J.I. Packer

#69. The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

J.I. Packer

#70. I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really need a toothbrush, as most places you go to have a bar of soap and some shampoo.

Laurence Fox

#71. Thiel concluded that "greed is far preferable to envy: It is less destructive (I'd rather live in a society where people don't share than in one where they try to take what belongs to everybody else) and it is more honest.

George Packer

#72. 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.

J.I. Packer

#73. Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

Boyd K. Packer

#74. 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

#75. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.

J.I. Packer

#76. The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

J.I. Packer

#77. Our Lord Jesus Christ is both God for man and man for God;

J.I. Packer

#78. Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

Boyd K. Packer

#79. The Gospel is not the ABC's of the Christian life; it is the A through Z of the Christian life.

J.I. Packer

#80. 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.

J.I. Packer

#81. People that I know, the vast majority, who are successful work really, really hard. Sure, there's some people that either get lucky or inherited it or don't have to work hard for some reason, but the vast majority who are successful work really, really hard.

Will Packer

#82. The hard thing for me is to say no to people.

Ann Packer

#83. We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel

J.I. Packer

#84. Historical exegesis is only the preliminary part of interpretation; application is its essence. Exegesis without application should not be called interpretation at all.

J.I. Packer

#85. If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Boyd K. Packer

#86. The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

J.I. Packer

#87. We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

J.I. Packer

#88. The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

William Allen White

#89. Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

Boyd K. Packer

#90. Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty ... a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

J.I. Packer

#91. The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.

Boyd K. Packer

#92. Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

J.I. Packer

#93. Gift of wisdom consisting in the power to do this, the gift actually presupposes our conscious inability to do it,

J.I. Packer

#94. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

J.I. Packer

#95. A deepening sense of one's sinfulness remains a touchstone of the genuine Christian life.

J.I. Packer

#96. I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.

Boyd K. Packer

#97. I will be your God," is an unconditional undertaking on God's part to be "for us" (Rom. 8:31), "on our side" (Ps. 124:1-5), using all his resources for the furthering of the ultimate good of those ("us") to whom he thus pledges himself.

J.I. Packer

#98. The solution of the problem lies in seeing it - in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution - just seeing what's there ...

Toni Packer

#99. Kentucky wants to occupy some clock

Billy Packer

#100. I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir "Goodbye to All That," and a civilian memoir "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain .

George Packer