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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.

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
Godliness
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Human
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
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Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
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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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Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
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The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
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The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
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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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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.
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The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
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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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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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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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Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.
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