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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.

J. I. Packer

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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
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God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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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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God is triune there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
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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 battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
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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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God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.
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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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You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
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Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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