Kevin DeYoung Quotes

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us

...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.

Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.

Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord

Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.

In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.

We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.

Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.

It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all.

Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God.

The word of God is more than enough for the people of God to live their lives to the glory of God

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have.

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.

To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.

Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes it in music without lots of practice. No one excels in scholarship without years of study. And no one makes it far in the school of holiness without hours and days and years in the word. You and I simply will not mature as quickly, minister as effectively, or live as gloriously without immersing ourselves in the Scriptures. We need the Bible if we are to be competent Christians.

For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.