J. I. Packer Quotes

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

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• Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

  

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  • Great
  • God
  • Father

• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

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  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

  

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  • Popular

• Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

  

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  • God
  • Heart
  • Reality

• There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

  

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  • Good
  • God
  • Knowledge

• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

  

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  • Time
  • Power
  • Technology

• The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

  

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  • God
  • Peace
  • Firsts

• Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.

  

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  • God
  • Decision
  • Destiny

• There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

  

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  • Great
  • God
  • Die

• The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

  

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  • God
  • Hope
  • Father

• My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

  

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  • Love
  • Wife
  • Church

• Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

  

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  • Life
  • God
  • Business

• I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

  

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  • God
  • Process
  • Saying

• Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

  

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  • Men
  • Growing
  • Positive

• 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.

  

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  • God
  • Son
  • Order

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

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  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

  

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  • People
  • Saint
  • Holiness

• The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

  

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  • Life
  • God
  • Help

• The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

  

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  • God
  • Heart
  • Character

• There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

  

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  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Knowing

• God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.

  

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  • God
  • Father
  • Son

• The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

  

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  • Me
  • Books
  • Profound

• The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

  

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  • Soul
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

  

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  • Christ
  • Hypocrite
  • Sheep