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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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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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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.
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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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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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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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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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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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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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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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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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
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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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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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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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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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