Top 173 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin DeYoung - Page 3

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.

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

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

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

God's timing is rarely our timing.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.

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.

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

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.

Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

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.

You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

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.

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

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.

If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

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

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

I'm pretty sure most of us would be more fulfilled if we didn't fixate on fulfillment quite so much.

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

Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

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

Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.