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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For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
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William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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Do I believe? God only knows.
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Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me.
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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.
