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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
J. I. Packer
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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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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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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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.
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God is triune there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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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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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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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.
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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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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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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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Think against your feelings argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.
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