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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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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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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God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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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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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
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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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Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
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