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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
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
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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
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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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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
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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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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
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We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.
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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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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT 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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To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
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The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
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Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.
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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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