J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

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  Powerful, Clever, Heart

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.70, InterVarsity Press

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

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  Moving

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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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• [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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• The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

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  Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy

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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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• 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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• 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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  Christian, Religious, Distance

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