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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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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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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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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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
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Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
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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 Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
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God is triune there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
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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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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
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You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
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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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My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
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The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
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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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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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Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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