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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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
Theologian
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
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The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.
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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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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.
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Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
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Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
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To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
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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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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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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
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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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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
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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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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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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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