Kevin DeYoung Quotes - Page 5

Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

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

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

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.

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.

If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.

The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation is not complete, we must admit that somehow the work of redemption also remains unfinished. . . . Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together.

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

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don’t go. Don’t watch it. Don’t read it. Don’t rent it.

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

If you make the goal of your life just to stay alive, you'll fail. If you make the goal of your life the kingdom, you cannot lose.

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are and where we're going.

My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.

If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God's will is in such bondage and confusion?

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

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

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

Keep sharing the good news; we have not yet exhausted the number of God's elect.

Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.