J. I. Packer Quotes

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Help
  • You
  • Guidance

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I read everything and anything. I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • Everything

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Know
  • Couple
  • Trump

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Pink

• There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • God
  • Family
  • Kids

• The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • God
  • Universe
  • Plot

• When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Mistake
  • Blame
  • Mantra

• The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

  

  J. I. Packer
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