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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.

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
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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Think against your feelings argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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