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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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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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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
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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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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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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
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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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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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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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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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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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Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
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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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