J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 2

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• Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.

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  Mistake, Home, Blessing

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

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  Heart, Doe, Theology

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• Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

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  Criminals, Transition, Inheritance

  J. I. Packer (1997). “Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional”, Servant Publications

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• The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.

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  Spirit, Study, Given

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.112, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

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  Self, Denial, Speak

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• Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

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  Christian, Spring, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.

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  Prayer, Heart, Responsibility

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.44, InterVarsity Press

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• Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

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  Know How, Knows, Dies

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• The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

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  Attitude, Humility, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2014). “finishing our course with joy”, p.43, SPCK

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• The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

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  Christian, Humility, Roots

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.162, InterVarsity Press

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• In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.

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  Moving, Mean, Men

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.291, InterVarsity Press

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• Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

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  Honesty, Stress, Following Christ

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• The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

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  Love Is, Giving, God Love

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.55, Baker Books

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• Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

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  Father, Judging, Adoption

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.231, InterVarsity Press

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• Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

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  Repentance, Moaning, Knows

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• God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.

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  Father, Son, Together

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• What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

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  Doe, Eternity, Carrie

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.80, InterVarsity Press

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• To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

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  Christian, Sex, Kindness

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

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  Study

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

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• Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

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  Strong, Fall, Failing

  J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.319, InterVarsity Press

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• Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God is my Father; heaven is my home; every day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is my brother too. Say it over and over again to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time when your mind is free, and ask God that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completely true. For this is the Christians secret of the Christian life, of a God-honouring life.

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  Christian, Morning, Brother

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• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

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  Stronger, Body, Waste

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

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  Humble, Divine Wisdom, Mind

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• The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

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  Encouraging, Encouragement, Stars

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• We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

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  Dishonor, Discontent, Savior

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