J. I. Packer Quotes
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
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Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
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We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.
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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
