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“The heart cannot rejoice in that which the mind rejects”
― Kenneth Boa, I'm Glad You Asked: In-Depth Answers to Difficult Questions about Christianity

“(Matthew 22:37, 39) My purpose is to love God completely, love self correctly, and love others compassionately.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Handbook to Prayer: Praying Scripture Back to God

“Instead, we must dare to believe that if everything else is taken away, our God is enough.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“Almost everyone wants to claim to be on Jesus’ side, but if we’re honest we have to wonder if we, too, might have called for His execution if He had lived in our generation. Jesus is the one person in history about whom almost everyone has a strong opinion. You owe it to yourself to find out who He really was.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, 20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists: Discover Why Believing in God Makes So Much Sense

“People think they want pleasure, recognition, popularity, status, and power, but the pursuit of these things leads to emptiness, delusion, and foolishness. God”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“The significance of prayer is not what we are asking but the Person we are addressing.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“As followers of Jesus, we must look beyond people, things, and circumstances to meet our needs. All of these are unstable and inadequate, and if we depend on them, we will fail.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. —ROBERT JASTROW”
― Kenneth D. Boa, 20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists: Discover Why Believing in God Makes So Much Sense

“Open my eyes that I may see Wonderful things from Your law. (Psalm 119:15-18)”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Handbook to Prayer: Praying Scripture Back to God

“When we approach the spiritual journey with an open and teachable spirit, we will continue to gain fresh insights from the Word of God, the people we meet, and the books we digest.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“I have more trouble with D. L. Moody than with any other man I’ve ever met. —D. L. MOODY”
― Kenneth D. Boa, 20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists: Discover Why Believing in God Makes So Much Sense

“But in the end, people’s opinions will be irrelevant; when we stand before God, only his opinion will matter.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“Another key to staying in the process is learning to receive each day and whatever it brings as from the hand of God. Because God’s character is unchanging and good, whatever circumstances he allows in the life of his children are for their good, even though they may not seem so at the time. His will for us is “good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2), so the trials, disappointments, setbacks, tasks, and adversities we encounter are, from an eternal vantage point, the place of God’s kingdom and blessing. This perspective (Romans 8:28–39) can change the way we pray. Instead of asking the Lord to change our circumstances to suit us, we can ask him to use our circumstances to change us. Realizing that “the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Romans 8:18), we can experience “the fellowship of [Christ’s] sufferings” through “the power of His resurrection” (Philippians 3:10).”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“In our culture, we increasingly tend to be human doings rather than human beings. The world tells us that what we achieve and accomplish determines who we are, but the Scriptures teach that who we are in Christ should be the basis for what we do.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“It is crucial for us to form the habit of holy leisure, of quiet places and times alone with the Lord, so that we will restore our passion and intimacy with Christ. In this way, service will flow out of our life with him, and our activities and abilities will be animated by dependence upon his indwelling power. Restoration and renewal are especially important after periods of intense activity. When we seek and treasure God’s intentions and calling, our personal knowledge of him (knowing) shapes our character (being) and conduct (doing). Although we are more inclined to follow Jesus into service than into solitude, the time we spend in “secluded places” with him (Mark 1:35; 6:31) will energize our service.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“•I want to glorify the Father by bearing much fruit, and so prove to be Christ’s disciple. (John 15:8)”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Handbook to Prayer: Praying Scripture Back to God

“My dear, then I will serve.” “You must sit down,” says Love, “and taste my meat.” So I did sit and eat.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“*I have fulfillment for this day because Christ lives in me. (Philippians 1:20-21) *By faith, I will allow Christ to manifest His life through me. (2 Corinthians 2:14)”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Handbook to Prayer: Praying Scripture Back to God

“•”I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.” (Galatians 2:20) *I have forgiveness from the penalty of sin because Christ died for me. (Romans 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:3) *I have freedom from the power of sin because I died with Christ. (Colossians 2:11; 1 Peter 2:24)”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Handbook to Prayer: Praying Scripture Back to God

“Sadly, when Christian institutions have become powerful, those in charge have often given in to the temptation to abuse that power. The history of such abuses is a sobering reminder that it is useless to put our faith in a religious institution (even a Christian one). Our faith should be in Christ alone.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, 20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists: Discover Why Believing in God Makes So Much Sense

“God of grace, I live in a dry and weary land. I have tasted how good you are, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more of you. I so desperately need what only you can provide, and yet I confess that I often search in other places. I do not desire you as much as I ought to, but I want to want you more. I wish to be filled with a holy longing. Show me a glimpse of your glory, and my thirst will be quickened again. You sent your Son to pour out his life for me.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, NIV, Once-A-Day 40 Days to Easter Devotional

“Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.…Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.…Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“a wise person finds more joy in serving others than in pursuing possessions, power, performance, or prestige.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“God, You comfort us in all our afflictions, so that we can comfort those in any affliction with the comfort we ourselves have received from You. (2 Corinthians 1:4)”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Face to Face, Volume Two: Praying the Scriptures for Spiritual Growth (A 90-Day Devotional)

“Christian maturity does not spring out of isolation but is nourished through involvement.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“May I receive the words of wisdom And treasure her commands within me, Turning my ear to wisdom And applying my heart to understanding. If I cry for discernment And lift up my voice for understanding, If I seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures, Then I will understand the fear of the Lord And find the knowledge of God.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Handbook to Prayer: Praying Scripture Back to God

“The discipline of witness takes seriously the biblical mandate of bearing witness to Jesus by building nonmanipulative relationships with eternity in view.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“As we grow in our understanding of God’s unconditional love and acceptance of us in Christ, we are increasingly liberated from using people to meet our needs.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“Again, we’ve come upon the secret of Christians who seem so different. They are different because they’re drawing on the life of Jesus. They’re living every day in the presence of God. Not only are they in him, but he is in them, streaming his abundant life to and through them. If you’re a Christian, this is the life you’re meant to be living: constantly, consciously dependent on him, aware that your life is not your own. Jesus is living his life in you and through you, as you.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Life in the Presence of God: Practices for Living in Light of Eternity

“will trust in the Lord and do good; I will dwell in the land and feed on His faithfulness. I will delight myself in the Lord, and He will give me the desires of my heart. I will commit my way to the Lord and trust in Him, and He will bring it to pass. I will rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him; I will not fret because of him who prospers in his way, with the man who practices evil schemes. (Psalm”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Handbook to Renewal: Renewing Your Mind with Affirmations from Scripture