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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.

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
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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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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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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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It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.
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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
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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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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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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's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
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