J I Packer Quotes

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• We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the…
• One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
• The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious…
• Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God…
• We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we…
• Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
• [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…
• Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God…
• A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and…
• The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
• Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about…
• Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
• The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who…
• In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth…
• 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
• All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
• God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
• Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as…
• 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…

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