Knowing God Through the Year Quotes

“What matters supremely is not the fact that I know God but the larger fact that underlies it—the fact that he knows me. I am engraved on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me. I know him because he first knew me and continues to know me.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional

“He knows me as a friend and is one who loves me. There is no moment when his eye is off me or his attention distracted from me and no moment, therefore, when his care falters.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 What are we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the “eternal life” that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God. What is the best thing in life, bringing more joy, delight, and contentment than anything else? Knowledge of God. What, of all the states God ever sees man in, gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself. In these few sentences we have seen a great deal. Our point is one to which every Christian heart will warm, though the person whose religion is merely formal will not be moved by it. What we have said provides at once a foundation, a shape, and a goal for our lives, plus a principle of priorities and a scale of values.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional

“To get to know another person, you have to commit yourself to his company and interests and be ready to identify yourself with his concerns.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional

“(Daniel 4:25). God foreknows all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination. He, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every person.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional