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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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The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
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God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.
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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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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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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
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If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
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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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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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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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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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Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
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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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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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Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
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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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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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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 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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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
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