Kevin DeYoung Quotes - Page 4

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

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

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

If we aren’t prepared to be counter-cultural we aren’t ready to be Christians.

God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

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

The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to.

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.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

God's timing is rarely our timing.

We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

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

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.

If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption

We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God. And that's all we need to know. Worry about the future is not simply a character tic, it is the sin of unbelief, an indication that our hearts are not resting in the promises of God.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.