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Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
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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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
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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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Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.
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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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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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Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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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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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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The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
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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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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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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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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
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