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God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.

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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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The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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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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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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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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What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
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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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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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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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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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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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Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.
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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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