J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

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  Husband, Love You, Wife

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• Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

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  Commitment, Biblical, Simple

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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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