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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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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
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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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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
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Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
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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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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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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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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
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Think against your feelings argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
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Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
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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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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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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 is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
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