J. I. Packer Quotes
The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
Quotes to Explore
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.
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This truly is the God of lesser glory, because of his lesser knowledge, lesser wisdom, lesser discernment, lesser ability, lesser reliability, and lesser guidance.
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I believe that my work has been well-received because it is authentic. All people really want are authenticity and truth.
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Today we tend to focus on the unemployment rate being low. But just creating jobs isn’t the point. Many of the jobs people have today don’t even pay a living wage. Our focus needs to be on creating wealth, not just jobs or earning a wage.
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The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
