Sunday, January 3, 2010
J.I. Packer on Spiritual Disciplines
"As the children of this world, fired by personal ambition, set themselves career goals and then work very hard to adchieve them, so God's children, fired by the greatness of divine love, should have before their minds the goal of discipline in daily living, and work equally hard, planning, praying, and trying things out, to make it a reality. The alternative is to live like a pilot flying blind--always being taken by surprise and tyrannised by the immediate, the urgent, and the unexpected--experiencing life as a succession of emergencies that one is never ready to meet."
J.I. Packer "A Passion for Holiness" (Leicester: Crossway Books, 1992), 115.
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