J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 8

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• We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

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  Bible, Biblical, Mind

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• Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.

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  Men, Foundation, Purpose

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.92, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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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• If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.

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  Doubt, Mind, Devil

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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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• The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.

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  Faith, Stars, Night

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

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• Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

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  Taught, Endeavor, Response

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

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• The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

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  Wrath, Essence, People

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.

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  Would Be, Christ, Salvation

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• God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do not hear it, and moving some of those who hear it to repentance while leaving others in their unbelief, thus teaching his saints that hew owes mercy to none and that it is entirely of his grace, not at all through their own effort, that they themselves have found life.

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  Teaching, Moving, Effort

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• We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

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  Christian, Godly, Greatness

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• Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.

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  Biblical, Destiny, Views

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• God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

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  Goal, Glorify

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

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• Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

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  People, Internet, Amazed

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• The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.

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  Thinking, Facts, Sound

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

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  Angel, Men, Goal

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• Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

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  Prayer, Wife, Making Love

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• Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Lame

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• Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

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  Fiction, Christian Christmas, Religious Christmas

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

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• The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

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  Christian, Jesus, Soul

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• Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

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  Different, Purity, Holy

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• You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

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  Believe, Thank God, Sound

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• Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

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  Men, Agents, Moral

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.30, InterVarsity Press

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• The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

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  Firsts, Doe, Peace With God

  "Knowing God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1973.

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• God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

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  Book, Character, Scripture

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