J. I. Packer Short Quotes

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It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

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

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God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

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Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

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

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Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

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

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

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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

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God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

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

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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

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

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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

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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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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time...

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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

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

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Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

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The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

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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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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

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The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

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