"The modern way with God is to set……" — J I Packer
"The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians."
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158 Quotes by J I Packer
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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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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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