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JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 The mystery revealed, in a un...
JAMES I. PACKER What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individu...
JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 When evangelicals call the Bible "ine...
JAMES I. PACKER Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bi...
J. I. PACKER All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly ima...
J. I. PACKER Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides ...
J. I. PACKER I recognize two kinds of faith. The first is the kind which is apparent in the world. It is the comm...
BOYD K. PACKER Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because th...
BOYD K. PACKER The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evi...
BOYD K. PACKER It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA