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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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
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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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.
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
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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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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
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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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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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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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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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Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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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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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 half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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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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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
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God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.
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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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Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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