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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.
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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James Innell Packer
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For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
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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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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
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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
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I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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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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N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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