The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
J. I. PackerRepentance 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.
J. I. PackerOnce you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
J. I. PackerMen treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.
J. I. PackerBut to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.
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