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We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
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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Christian Theologian
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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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