J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 6

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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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• It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.

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  Gratitude, Talking, Giving

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• God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

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  Exercise, Love Is, Merit

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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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• This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

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  Grace, New Testament, Theology

  J. I. Packer (1997). “Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional”, Servant Publications

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• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

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  God, Character, Men

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• Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

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  Teaching, Biblical, Men

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• When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

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  Limits, Scripture, Arguing

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

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• What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

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  Christian, Imagination, Goal

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

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• If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

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  Preaching The Gospel, Helping, Preaching

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• The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

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  Two, Church, Needs

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

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  Born Again, Born

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

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• We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

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  Jesus, Entering, Lord

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• Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

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  Lying, Teaching, Mean

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• The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

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  Godly, Way, Truly Happy

  Dr J I Packer (1987). “Hot Tub Religion”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

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  Men, Negative, Growing

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• There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

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  Son, Order, Desire

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• The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

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  Church, Newton, Canon

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

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• The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

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  Grace, Merit, Guilty

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.196, InterVarsity Press

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• All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

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  Christian, Action, Evangelism

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• The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.

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  Christmas, Baby, Children

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.20, InterVarsity Press

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• Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.

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  Christian, Life Changing, Ignorance

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• Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

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  Order, Worship, True Worship

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• Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

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  Song, Doe, Fundamentals

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• The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

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  Mystery, New Testament, Incarnation

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.21, InterVarsity Press

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