Top 173 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin DeYoung - Page 2

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

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

The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?

Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.

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

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

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

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.

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

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.

The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.

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.

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.

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

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

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

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

Grace is free, but it's not cheap.

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God.

Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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