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Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
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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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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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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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
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He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
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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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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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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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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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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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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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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 peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
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