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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
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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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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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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 Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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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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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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We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.
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God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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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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