J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 9

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• We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

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  Human Life, Humans, Commandments

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

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  Lord, Calvinism, Endeavor

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• What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.

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  Loneliness, Self, Life And Death

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• Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

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  Prayer, Guarantees That, Long

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

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• I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

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  Heart, Desire, Sin

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• Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

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  Prayer, Unique, Reality

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• To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

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  Biblical, Grace, Favors

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.131, InterVarsity Press

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• Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

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  Spiritual, Literal

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

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  Thinking, Mind, Guides

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

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• Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

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  Church, Doctrine, Realizing

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• Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

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  Son, Missing, Way

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• It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.

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  Christian, Lying, Men

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• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

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  Moving, Technology, Next

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• N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

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  Backgrounds, Foreground

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• It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.

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  Biblical, Men, Self

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

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• The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

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  Book, Men, Thinking

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• Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

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  Speculation

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

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• It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action.

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  Lying, Men, Guarantees

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.81, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

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  Christian, Greatness, Church

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• What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct

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  Children, Attitude, Teaching

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• God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.

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  Curiosity, Answers, Scripture

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.109, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.

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  Christian, Running, Errors

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.127, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

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  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

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  Christian, Religious, Past

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• Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.

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  World, Missed You

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