J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 3

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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 Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

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  Son, Order, Might

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• The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

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  Simple, Religion, Utterance

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.298, InterVarsity Press

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• You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

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  Knowing God, Stills, Knows

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• There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

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  Determination, Discovery, Knowing

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

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• The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

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  Holiness, Soil, Adoration

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.53, Baker Books

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• Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

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  Christian, Confusion, Missionary

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.136, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

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  Goal, Knowing God, Higher

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

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• Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

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  Kings, Heart, Past

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

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• We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

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  Complaining, Today, Ministers

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• The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

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  Children, Ideas, Found

  "Knowing God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1973.

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• Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

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  Mean, Men, Secret

  J.I. Packer (2016). “God Has Spoken”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

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  Church, Would Be, World

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• The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

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  Christian, People, Holiness

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.86, Baker Books

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• God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.

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  Way

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.309, InterVarsity Press

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• There are no small sins against a great God

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  Sin

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.97, Baker Books

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• A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

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  Men, Would Be, Mystery

  "Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1961.

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• I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).

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  Believe, Grace, Needs

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.136, InterVarsity Press

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• God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

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  Wise, Prayer, Mean

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• To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

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  Love Is, Heaven, Earth

  J. I. Packer (1993). “Knowing God Study Guide”, p.21, InterVarsity Press

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• Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

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  Knowing, Understanding, Soul

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• What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

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  Praying, Sovereignty, Impotence

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

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• Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

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  Spiritual, Reading, Way

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• Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Looks

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• The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

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  Action, Trinity, Bases

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