Conformed to His Image Quotes

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“The spiritual life was never meant to be lived alone but in a context of community with like-minded believers.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“Jesus was criticized, rejected, slandered, misunderstood, plotted against, betrayed, denied, and abused by his family and friends, his disciples, the Jewish religious leaders, and the Romans. As his ministry progressed, our Lord faced increasing levels of hostility and opposition. In”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“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

“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

“While we come to faith in Christ as individuals, we do not grow in isolation but through the interdependence of the body of Christ. Our modern world view is highly individualistic, autonomous, and self-serving, but as we will see, the biblical world view is covenantal, interdependent, communal, relational, and self-transcending.”
― 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

“It is easy and comforting to reduce God to a set of biblical propositions and theological inferences rather than a living person who cannot be boxed in, controlled, or manipulated by our agendas.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“In contrast to the world, God’s economy measures greatness not in terms of ability or accomplishments but in the vitality and integrity of a person’s walk with the Lord.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“People without a relationship with their personal Creator are hungering for love, happiness, meaning, and fulfillment, but nothing that this planet offers can fully satisfy these longings.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image

“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

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

“The more we are concerned with what God thinks of us, the less we will be worried about what others think of us. And when we are no longer enslaved to people’s opinions of us, we are free to love and serve them as Christ loves us—with no strings attached.”
― 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

“The more we are impressed by him, the less we will be impressed by people, power, and things.”
― Kenneth D. Boa, Conformed to His Image