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Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling it is, primarily, a state of mind.
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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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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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