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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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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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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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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Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
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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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The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
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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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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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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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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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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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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
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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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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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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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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
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Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
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The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.
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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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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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