Kevin DeYoung Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

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

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

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

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

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

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

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.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Grace is free, but it's not cheap.

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

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

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

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.

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."

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

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

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.

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.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.

All paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy. Pick a path, any path—it will take you to God. Trust me: you will stand before Him one day. You will meet your Maker. You will see the face of Christ. There are many ways up the mountain, but only one will result in life instead of destruction.

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

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

The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

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.

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

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

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