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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.
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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James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
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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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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
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If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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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 simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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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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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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