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J. I. Packer

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I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
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I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
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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Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
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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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.
What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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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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.
Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
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Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
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