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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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 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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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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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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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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Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
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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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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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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 fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
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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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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 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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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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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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God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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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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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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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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The meaning of He will give us all things can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.
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