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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
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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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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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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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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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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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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Think against your feelings argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
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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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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
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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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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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The meaning of He will give us all things can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.
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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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