J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 3

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• 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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  Determination, Discovery, Knowing

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

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  Love Is, Giving, God Love

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.55, Baker Books

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• Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

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  Joy, Feelings, Mind

  J. I. Packer (1998). “Great Joy: A 31-Day Devotional”

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• In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.

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  Moving, Mean, Men

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.291, InterVarsity Press

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• The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

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  Encouraging, Encouragement, Stars

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• Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

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  Christian, Confusion, Missionary

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.136, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

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  Wrath, Unrighteousness, Reacting

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

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  Kings, Heart, Past

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

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• The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

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  Simple, Religion, Utterance

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.298, InterVarsity Press

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• We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

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  Dishonor, Discontent, Savior

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• The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

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  Fruit, Justified, Truth Is

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• The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.

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  Spirit, Study, Given

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.112, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).

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  Believe, Grace, Needs

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.136, InterVarsity Press

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• Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

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  Mean, Men, Secret

  J.I. Packer (2016). “God Has Spoken”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

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  Spiritual, Real, Humility

  "Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging". Book by J. I. Packer, 2013.

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• If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

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  Heart, Doe, Theology

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• Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

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  Repentance, Moaning, Knows

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• Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

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  Spiritual, Reading, Way

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• Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.

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  Mean, Practice, Giving

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.87, Baker Books

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• What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

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  Praying, Sovereignty, Impotence

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

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• There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

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  Reality, Judging, Stressed

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.195, InterVarsity Press

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• God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

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  Jobs, Sheep, Track

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.95, InterVarsity Press

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• A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

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  Faith, Christian, Wise

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• The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.

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  Christian, Religious, Distance

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• The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

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  Christian, Humility, Roots

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.162, InterVarsity Press

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