Top 180 Kevin DeYoung Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Any gospel which purports to save people without also transforming them is inviting easy-believism. If you think being a Christian is nothing more than saying a prayer or joining a church, then you’ve confused real grace with cheap grace. Those who are justified will be sanctified.”

— Kevin DeYoung

52. “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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

54. “Margin,” Swenson says, “is the space between our load and our limits.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

57. “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.”

— Kevin DeYoung

58. “Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.”

— Kevin DeYoung

59. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

60. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

62. “Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?”

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63. “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.”

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64. “Just remember the most serious threats are spiritual. When we are crazy busy, we put our souls at risk. The challenge is not merely to make a few bad habits go away. The challenge is to not let our spiritual lives slip away.”

— Kevin DeYoung

65. “J. C. Ryle observed, “A man may preach from false motives. A man may write books, and make fine speeches, and seem diligent in good works, and yet be a Judas Iscariot. But a man seldom goes into his closet, and pours out his soul before God in secret, unless he is serious.”

— Kevin DeYoung

66. “If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.”

— Kevin DeYoung

67. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

68. “Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.”

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69. “Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.”

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70. “Our feelings matter. Our stories matter. Our friends matter. But ultimately we must search the Scriptures to see what matters most. Don’t discount the messenger as a bigot if your real problem is with the Bible.”

— Kevin DeYoung

71. “We wake up most days not trying to serve, just trying to survive.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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73. “We live in a permissive society that won’t count any sin against you as an adult, but will count the calories in your kids’ hot lunches.”

— Kevin DeYoung

74. “They took a bite from the forbidden fruit, and the fruit bit back.”

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75. “If we had done something – almost anything, really – faithfully and humbly for God’s glory for all that time, we could have made quite an impact. But if we do nothing, because we are always trying to figure out the perfect something, when it comes time to show what we did for the Lord, we will not have anything.”

— Kevin DeYoung

76. “Christian spirituality does not rest on mysticism; it rests in a Mediator.”

— Kevin DeYoung

77. “The most important decision we face is the daily decision to live for Christ and die to self.”

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78. “Bad theology leads to despair, and proud theology leads to disdain. But humble, heartfelt Reformed theology should always lead to doxology.”

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79. “We must be given a new heart. We must be regenerated. We must be converted. We must be changed. The Christian life-the life of faith in God, hope in Christ, and love for others-necessitates, first of all, a life that has been given a supernatural new start by the Holy Spirit. We must be born again.”

— Kevin DeYoung

80. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

81. “The word of God is more than enough for the people of God to live their lives to the glory of God.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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83. “It’s not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.”

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84. “It’s true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.”

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

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86. “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.””

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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88. “We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.”

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

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90. “The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.”

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91. “You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.”

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92. “Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God’s way. His way is to speak to us in the Scriptures and transform us by the renewing of our minds. His way is not a crystal ball. His way is wisdom.”

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93. “The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present. We cannot be any of these things. We must choose our absence, our inability, and our ignorance – and choose wisely.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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

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96. “A theologically astute, immature Christian is like a 5-year-old flying an Apache helicopter.”

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97. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

98. “Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God’s way.”

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99. “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.”

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

— Kevin DeYoung