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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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
University Teacher
Writer
Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
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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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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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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 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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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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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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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.
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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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