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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.

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
University Teacher
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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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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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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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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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
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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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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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Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling it is, primarily, a state of mind.
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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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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
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If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.
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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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