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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
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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The meaning of He will give us all things can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.
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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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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
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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 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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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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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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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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Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
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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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