Top 180 Kevin DeYoung Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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2. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

3. “Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.”

— Kevin DeYoung

4. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

5. “Grace is free, but it’s not cheap.”

— Kevin DeYoung

6. “Keep sharing the good news; we have not yet exhausted the number of God’s elect.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

9. “The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

12. “Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

17. “God’s timing is rarely our timing.”

— Kevin DeYoung

18. “You’ll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

20. “God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

22. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

25. “Here’s good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.”

— Kevin DeYoung

26. “The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don’t take them for granted.”

— Kevin DeYoung

27. “Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

31. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

32. “Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.”

— Kevin DeYoung

33. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

34. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

36. “God’s will is always your sanctification.”

— Kevin DeYoung

37. “We will have to work hard to rest.”

— Kevin DeYoung

38. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

39. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

43. “Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It’s about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.”

— Kevin DeYoung

44. “The seed of God’s Word won’t grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm.”

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45. “The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.”

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

48. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

50. “Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord.”

— Kevin DeYoung