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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
Theologian
University Teacher
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
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I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
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Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling it is, primarily, a state of mind.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
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Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
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A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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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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Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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