Top 180 Kevin DeYoung Quotes (2024 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 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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

54. “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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

56. “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

57. “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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

59. “The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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61. “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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62. “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

63. “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

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

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65. “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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

67. “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

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

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

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70. “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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

72. “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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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81. “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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82. “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.””

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

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

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

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86. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

87. “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

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

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89. “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.”

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90. “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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91. “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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92. “We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.”

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93. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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

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

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

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99. “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.”

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100. “Esther was more man than most men I know, myself included. Many of us – men and women – are extremely passive and cowardly. We don’t take risks for God because we are obsessed with safety, security, and most of all, with the future.”

— Kevin DeYoung