J. I. Packer Quotes
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
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The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.
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Some people buy records just to dance to 'em. Some people buy records to listen to the radio. And there's people that buy records 'cause they listen to every song.
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The point of art is to emphasize some elements at the expense of others.
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Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.
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Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.