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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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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
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You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
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The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
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Think against your feelings argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
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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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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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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 Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
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Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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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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N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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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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