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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.

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
University Teacher
Writer
Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.
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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
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