Seeing Is Believing Quotes

“Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one’s evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture?”[9”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“In a community that gets life based on appearances, problems tend to be diagnosed in terms of how things appear.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The more fundamental question that needs to be asked is, “Why do we have trouble trusting God?” and “Why do we cling to the world as a source of life?”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“is, of course, on one level true that the reason we don’t experience the perfect peace the Bible says we can have is that we don’t trust God enough and don’t embrace an eternal perspective on things. We are too concerned with the world.Who can deny that if we had a perfect trust in God we would find it easy to follow Jesus’s command not to worry about the things of this world (Matt. 6:25–32)? Also, if we consistently embraced an eternal perspective on life, we would naturally seek the kingdom of God above all else and trust God to meet our earthly needs (Matt. 6:33). Receiving the fullness of life that comes from God, we would not cling to the world as an idol and thus would not experience undue anxiety about whether or not our idols will come through for us.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“I ask him to sanctify my imagination and help me experience the real Jesus “with all five senses.” The”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“Lying requires a great deal of effort. Honesty is simply the commitment not to do this. The”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“All sin in our life is in one way or another a symptom of our being spiritually wounded, sick, or hungry.To”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“If we hope to be transformed, we have to allow God’s Word to have more credibility than our present feelings. Take”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The most important anchor, and therefore our “greatest help and blessing,” St. Teresa noted, is the fact that in Christ God became a man, hence someone we can concretely envision in our minds when we pray.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God.”[”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“I believe one of the most pervasive problems in contemporary Western Christianity is that we mistakenly assume that information automatically translates into transformation.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“Knowing that something is true does not in and of itself ensure that this truth will make a significant difference in our lives. The”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The extent to which we experience our freedom from condemnation in Christ is the extent to which we will realize there is no life in performing.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“addressed.Where the Holy Spirit is moving, sick people will be free to be unhealthy and thus will be free to be healed. Out”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“effort.While people involved in religious forms of the flesh may believe they are taking sin seriously by persistently reminding people to stop doing it, they are actually trivializing sin by depicting it as something that can be overcome through behavior modification.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The picture of God that I embraced could get me to feel shame for my sinful deeds, but it could not empower me to rise above them.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“For we are only as healthy as our picture of God is accurate. The”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“They are descriptions of what real life looks like, not prescriptions for how to get life.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“For they know the approval—and the worth they assign to this approval— would not be there without certain behaviors on their part. Hence, they never experience unconditional love and worth. Yet,”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The idol from which we strive to get life determines what behaviors we must display and what realities we must conceal. The”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“Every shortcoming, every sin, every struggle in the believer’s life in one way or another can be traced to the influence of the flesh on our way of seeing and experiencing ourselves in our world—our experienced self-identity. The”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone’s identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one’s world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

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― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer

“The fact that the prohibited tree was placed in the center of the garden, right next to the Tree of Life (Gen. 2:9), symbolizes that the life that God intends for us revolves around our honoring God’s prohibition as much as trusting God for his provision.The”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer