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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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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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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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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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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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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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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Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
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God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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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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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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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.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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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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A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.
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