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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.
J. I. Packer
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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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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 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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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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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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If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
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Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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God is triune there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
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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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Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.
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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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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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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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