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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
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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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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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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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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
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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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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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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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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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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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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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