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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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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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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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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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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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One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
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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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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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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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The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
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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 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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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
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