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Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

J. I. Packer

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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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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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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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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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The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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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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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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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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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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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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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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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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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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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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N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
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