“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, Knowing God
“We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God. It was for
this purpose that revelation was given, and it is to this use that we must put
it.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“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. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of
our lives. As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesmen to fly him to London,
put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave him, as one who
knew nothing of English or England, to fend for himself, so we are cruel to
ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose
world it is and who runs it .The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place,
and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not
know about God. 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
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“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, Knowing God
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal
of knowledge about him.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking
over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one
knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. It is an
activity of holy thought, consciously performed in the presence of God, under
the eye of God, by the help of God, as a means of communion with God.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“we must say that knowing God involves, first, listening to
God’s Word and receiving it as the Holy Spirit interprets it, in application to
oneself; second, noting God’s nature and character, as his Word and works reveal
it; third, accepting his invitations and doing what he commands; fourth,
recognizing and rejoicing in the love that he has shown in thus approaching you
and drawing you into this divine fellowship.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“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
I think for me, going through this sequential list of quotes has helped me (at least today) see how reading the Bible points me to God, and how head knowledge ("knowledge about God") is converted into heart knowledge ("knowledge of God/Knowing God").
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
I think for me, going through this sequential list of quotes has helped me (at least today) see how reading the Bible points me to God, and how head knowledge ("knowledge about God") is converted into heart knowledge ("knowledge of God/Knowing God").
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