"The grace of God is love freely shown……" — J I Packer
"The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit."
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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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