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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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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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We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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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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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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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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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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We are not fit for a place in God's family the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
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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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There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.
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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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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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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
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Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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