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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
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
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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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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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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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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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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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I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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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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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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