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Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
J. I. Packer
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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
Theologian
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
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Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
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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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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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Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.
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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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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 Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
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He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
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