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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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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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
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With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
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There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
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I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.
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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.
