Kevin DeYoung Quotes - Page 3

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

Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.

Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It’s about effectively serving others in the ways I’m best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called to serve.

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.

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

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

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

Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God.

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.

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

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