Quotes from James Montgomery Boice

What is it that leads such a person to reject the truth of God in the first place? According to Paul, it is a determined opposition to the nature of God Himself, which the apostle describes as human "ungodliness and unrighteousness" (Rom. 1:18).

Mary was still thinking in terms of a dead body when Jesus confronted her with His living presence.

It is the power of God operating through the teaching of his Word that alone has power "to demolish strongholds" (2 Cor. 10:4).

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process.

The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

The true Calvinist is someone whose whole life is devoted to the glory of God.

The world's theology The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view... that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22

I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew He moved my soul to seek him, seeking me; It was not I that found, O Savior true; No, I was found of thee.

Mary met Jesus as her son at the manger, but she did not meet Him as her Savior until she met Him at the cross. Mary needed to lose Jesus as a son in order to find Him as a Savior. Mary needed to take her place with the other disciples, standing as a sinner at the foot of the cross. She needed Jesus to die for her own sins.