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“Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training and discipline, planned by my Heavenly Father to help me forward along the path of Chrislike virtue.”
― J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness

“[Sanctification] is a process that includes on the one hand medication and diet (in the form of biblical instruction and admonition coming in various ways to the heart), and on the other hand tests and exercises (in the form of internal and external pressures, providentially ordered, to which we have to make active response). The process goes on as long as we are in the world, which is something that God decides in each case.”
― J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness

“Holiness is the object of our new creation. We are born again so that we may grow up into Christlikeness.”
― J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness

“Whenever Louise got anxious, her dad always said, You know, Louise, statistically, and there’s a lot of variance in these numbers, but in general, from a strictly scientific point of view, everything turns out okay an improbable number of times.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House