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A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

J. I. Packer

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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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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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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.
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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.
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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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Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
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God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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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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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling it is, primarily, a state of mind.
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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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The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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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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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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