J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 7

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• The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life for which the gospel calls will not be understood, and the required total shift from man-centeredness to God-centeredness, and more specifically from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness, will not take place.

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  Father, Men, Self

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• The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

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  Christian, Greatness, Worship

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

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• God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.

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  Mean, Perfect, Choices

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• Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.

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  Focus, Adoption, Would Be

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• Read two old books for every new one.

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  Book, Two, Old Books

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• Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

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  Needs, Sin, Shots

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• Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

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  Struggle, Maturity, Luxury

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• Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

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  Mean, Goal, Together

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.117, InterVarsity Press

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• Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

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  Ignorance, Church, Empires

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• But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

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  Teacher, Eye, Men

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.118, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

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  Two, Sick, Sin

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.307, InterVarsity Press

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• Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

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  Christian, Men, Mind

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

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  Simple, Spirit, Holy

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.54, InterVarsity Press

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• Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

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  Christian, Zealous, Natural

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• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

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  Prayer, Spirit, Sin

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• The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

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  Character, Today, Character Of God

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.76, InterVarsity Press

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• If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

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  Conceited, Proud, Sake

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• Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.

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  Prayer, Men, Expression

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• Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.

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  Doctrine, Study, Attributes

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

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• The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study.

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  Teaching, Biblical, Issues

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.96, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

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  Honesty, Cost, Facts

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.81, InterVarsity Press

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• The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all.

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  Christian, Intellectual, Spirit

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.15, Baker Books

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• The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.

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  Christian, Mean, Men

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

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• The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

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  Prayer, Vigor, Matter

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• The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

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  Jesus, Father, Years

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.35, InterVarsity Press

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