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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
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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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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
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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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The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
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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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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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The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
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For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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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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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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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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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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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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Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
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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 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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