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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
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.
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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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Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.
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A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.
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Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.
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God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
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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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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
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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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Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
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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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[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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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
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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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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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