J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

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  Order, Christ, Servant

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.13, InterVarsity Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

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  Reality, Judging, Stressed

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.195, InterVarsity Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

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  Crosses, Preacher, Whole

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• The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

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  Peace With God, Firsts

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.110, InterVarsity Press

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• God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

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  Wrath, Unrighteousness, Reacting

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

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  Humble, Work Out, Church

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.106, InterVarsity Press

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• God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

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  Fallen World, World, Fallen

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.79, Hachette UK

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