J. I. Packer Quotes
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
-
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
-
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
-
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
-
Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
-
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
-
I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
-
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
-
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
-
What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
-
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
-
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
-
I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
-
There is no better high than discovery.
-
I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
-
I read everything and anything. I love books.
-
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
-
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
-
On the pitch, I will always be like that. That's my character, and I will always compete and compete - always. I'm a different guy off the pitch, as you can see, but on the pitch, I will not change.
-
Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
-
Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.
-
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.
-
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
-
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
