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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.

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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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
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The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.
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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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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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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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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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N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
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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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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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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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