Calvinism is the consistent ...

Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.
 J. I. Packer

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
 J. I. Packer
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent
 J. I. Packer
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
 J. I. Packer
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.
 J. I. Packer
The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
 J. I. Packer