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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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[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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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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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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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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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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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
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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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We are not fit for a place in God's family the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.
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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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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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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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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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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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The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
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Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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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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