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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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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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Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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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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Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
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Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
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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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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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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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Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.
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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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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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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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