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J I Packer Inspirational Quotes (127)

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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
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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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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
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Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.
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To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
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The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.
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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
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The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.
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The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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