J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 5

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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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• We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.

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  Christian, Law, Light

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.105, InterVarsity Press

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• Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

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  Eye

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

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• A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

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  Littles, Knowledge Of God, Loving God

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.37, InterVarsity Press

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• It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.

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  Christian, Sweet, Father

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

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• Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

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  Complaints, Register, Creator

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.31, InterVarsity Press

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• Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

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  Men, Scripture, Matter

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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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• The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

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  Christian, Giving, Shining

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• Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

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  Fall, Leaving, Darkness

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• It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

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  Should, Staggering, Sinner

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.185, InterVarsity Press

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• He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

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  Two, Lessons, Sin

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• Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

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  Heart, Law, Renewal

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• A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

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  Faith, Christian, Wise

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• Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

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  Creativity, Maturity, Resilience

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• The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

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  Looks, Firsts, Ethics

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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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• Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.

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  Heart, Faithful, Needs

  J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.314, InterVarsity Press

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• What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

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  What Matters, Analysis, Lasts

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

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• If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.

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  Prayer, Children, Father

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• Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

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  Be Good, Theologian

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• The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.

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  Giving, One Day, Eternal Happiness

  J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.311, InterVarsity Press

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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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• Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Feelings

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• How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.

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  Prayer, Simple, Meditation

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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