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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

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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
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.
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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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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
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The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
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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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The meaning of He will give us all things can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.
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The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
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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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It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.
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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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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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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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We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.
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One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
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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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Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.
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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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