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Packer By Name

As Jim Packer has said about his own writing, “Packer by name. Packer by trade.” He can put a lot into a very few words. The quotable Packer was certainly in his usual fine form at Christian Book Expo in Dallas last week. Here are just a few:

“Karl Barth is an eccentric evangelical not a wolf in sheep’s clothing, as some would make him out to be.”

“I read and reread C. S. Lewis. My esteem for him goes up and up.”

“Ethics and reading a menu have much in common. Never let the good be the enemy of the best.”

Reflecting on the head injury he received as a seven-year-old when a truck hit him requiring portions of skull bone to be removed,

“I know better than most when I say, ‘I need that like a hole in the head.’”

Posted by Andy Le Peau at March 23, 2009 12:14 PM