J. I. Packer Quotes

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.

J. I. Packer

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• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

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• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

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• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  

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• For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

  

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• It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

  

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• As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

  

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• I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

  

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• Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

  

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• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

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• When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

  

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• He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

  

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• I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

  

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• I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.

  

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• Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

  

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• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  

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• But I had forgotten about the seven bowls of God's wrath stored in the minds of some of the unhappier prophets on the reactionary right,...

  

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• I've had ups and downs, that's just the way football goes. You can't win them all. It's a matter of learning each week and taking everything in. I'm not going to make every play, I'm going to make some mistakes, but as long as I'm not making the costly ones that are going to hurt the team, I'll be all right.

  

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• To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

  

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• God never puts something in our path where He has not already equipped us to handle.

  

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• Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.

  

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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.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Long
  • Wisdom