J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 4

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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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• Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

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  Suffering, Want, Inevitable

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.178, Baker Books

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• Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

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  Study, Blunders, Disregard

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.19, InterVarsity Press

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• His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

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  Purpose, Conscious, Communion

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

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  People, Saint, Holiness

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.88, Baker Books

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• Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

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  Spiritual, Real, Humility

  "Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging". Book by J. I. Packer, 2013.

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• The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

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  Doe, Saving, Flow

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• There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.

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  Mind, Guarantees, Favors

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.43, InterVarsity Press

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• Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.

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  Self, Choices, Forever

  J. I. Packer (1995). “Knowing and Doing the Will of God”

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

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  Pain, Weakness, Use

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

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• The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

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  Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy

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• What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

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  Christian, Father, Answers

  J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.228, InterVarsity Press

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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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• Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

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  Adoption, Privilege, Offers

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• The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

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  Fruit, Justified, Truth Is

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• Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

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  Joy, Feelings, Mind

  J. I. Packer (1998). “Great Joy: A 31-Day Devotional”

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• We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel

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  Moving

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• We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

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  Grace, Calling, His Love

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

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• We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.

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  Thinking, Too Much, Majesty

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.94, 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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• We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.

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  Jesus, Mean, Ideas

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.242, InterVarsity Press

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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 (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.

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  Jesus, Eye, Mind

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• There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

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  Knowing, Comfort, Unspeakable

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.7, InterVarsity Press

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• Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.

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  Mean, Son, Heaven

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.249, InterVarsity Press

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• Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Dwelling

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

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