J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 4

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• Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

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  Church, Would Be, World

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• The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

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  Holiness, Soil, Adoration

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.53, Baker Books

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• We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

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  Study

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

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• 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

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.88, Baker Books

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• [N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.

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  Jesus, Eye, Mind

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• Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

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  Be Good, Theologian

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• It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

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  Powerful, Clever, Heart

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.70, InterVarsity Press

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• God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

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  Fallen World, World, Fallen

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

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  Knowing, Understanding, Soul

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• The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

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  Children, Ideas, Found

  "Knowing God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1973.

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• A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

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  Littles, Knowledge Of God, Loving God

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.37, InterVarsity Press

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• The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

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  Action, Trinity, Bases

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• Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

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  Study, Blunders, Disregard

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.19, InterVarsity Press

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• The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.

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  Giving, One Day, Eternal Happiness

  J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.311, InterVarsity Press

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• Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

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  Complaints, Register, Creator

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.31, InterVarsity Press

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• Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

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  Eye

  J. I. Packer (1995). “Knowing and Doing the Will of God”

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• The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

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  Crosses, Preacher, Whole

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• We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel

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  Moving

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• God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

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  Wise, Prayer, Mean

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• Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Dwelling

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

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  Grace, Calling, His Love

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.

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  Mistake, Home, Blessing

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.

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  Christian, Law, Light

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.105, InterVarsity Press

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• We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.

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  Jesus, Mean, Ideas

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.242, InterVarsity Press

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• God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

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  Humble, Work Out, Church

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.106, InterVarsity Press

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