"Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience,……" — J I Packer
"Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity."
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158 Quotes by J I Packer
J I Packer has 158 quotes on this site.
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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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More Compound Quotes
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
— Athol Fugard
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer.…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children,…
— Charles Dickens
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full…
— Freeman Dyson
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound…
— Fritjof Capra
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in…
— Charles Babbage
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most…
— Ambrose Bierce
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