"Knowing about God is crucially important for the……" — J I Packer
"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 what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul."
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158 Quotes by J I Packer
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We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come…
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One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent…
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The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of…
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Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to…
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We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the…
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with…
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Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am…
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A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and…
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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible…
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Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various…
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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
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To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
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In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into…
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If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than…
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All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.
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They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and…
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