"Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a……" — J I Packer
"Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions."
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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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More Assent Quotes
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
— Pindar
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I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this…
— Thomas Kuhn
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And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,…
— David Hume
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The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
— Unknown Author
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul…
— Jessica Powers
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It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State,…
— James Madison
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely…
— Charles Hodge
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Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of…
— Ermanno Bencivenga
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
— William Gurnall
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