J. I. Packer Quotes
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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'It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.' - source
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I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
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We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.
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This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.
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Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.
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I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.
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Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
