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title: "2 Disregard Quotes By J. I. Packer"
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> [Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/knowing-about-god-is-crucially-important-for-the-living-of-our-lives/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

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> [Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/disregard-the-study-of-god-and-you-sentence-yourself-to-stumble-and-2/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

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## More by J. I. Packer

> [We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/we-need-to-discover-all-over-again-that-worship-is-natural-to-the/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/what-matters-supremely-therefore-is-not-in-the-last-analysis-the-fact/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/for-what-higher-more-exalted-and-more-compelling-goal-can-there-be/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/fanciful-spiritualizing-so-far-from-yielding-god-s-meaning-actually/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/grace-means-god-sending-his-only-son-to-the-cross-to-descend-into/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/god-made-life-and-god-alone-can-tell-us-its-meaning/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/revival-is-the-visitation-of-god-which-brings-to-life-christians-who/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/calvinism-is-the-consistent-endeavor-to-acknowledge-the-creator-as/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/there-are-few-things-stressed-more-strongly-in-the-bible-than-the/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/maturity-is-a-compound-of-wisdom-goodwill-resilience-and-creativity/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/the-peace-of-god-is-first-and-foremost-peace-with-god-it-is-the-state/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/today-on-our-own-turf-we-face-pagan-ignorance-about-god-every-bit-as/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/god-is-triune-there-are-within-the-godhead-three-persons-the-father/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/it-is-often-the-case-as-all-the-saints-know-that-fellowship-with-the/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

> [A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/a-little-knowledge-of-god-is-worth-more-than-a-great-deal-of/)

[J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/)

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