Top 180 Kevin DeYoung Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

105. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

106. “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

107. “One of the most resilient and cherished myths of parenting is that parenting creates the child.”

— Kevin DeYoung

108. “God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

114. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

115. “Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.”

— Kevin DeYoung

116. “You can borrow time, but you can’t steal it.”

— Kevin DeYoung

117. “You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

119. “God’s will for your life is not very complicated. Obviously, living a Christlike life is hard work, and what following Jesus entails is not clear in every situation. But as an overarching principle, 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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

120. “We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.”

— Kevin DeYoung

121. “It may sound boring or out-of-date, but it just happens to be true: the way to grow in your relationship with Jesus is to pray, read your Bible, and go to a church where you’ll get good preaching, good fellowship, and receive the sacraments.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

124. “We don’t get to pick the age we will live in, and we don’t get to choose all the struggles we will face. Faithfulness is ours to choose; the shape of faithfulness is God’s to determine.”

— Kevin DeYoung

125. “Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.”

— Kevin DeYoung

126. “Jesus submitted his will to the Scriptures, committed his brain to studying the Scriptures, and humbled his heart to obey the Scriptures. The Lord Jesus, God’s Son and our Savior, believed his Bible was the word of God down to the sentences, to the phrases, to the words, to the smallest letter, to the tiniest specks – and that nothing in all those specks and in all those books in his Holy Bible could ever be broken.”

— Kevin DeYoung

127. “But when interpreted correctly – paying attention to the original context, considering the literary genre, thinking through authorial intent – the Bible is never wrong in what it affirms and must never be marginalized as anything less than the last word on everything it teaches.”

— Kevin DeYoung

128. “Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.”

— Kevin DeYoung

129. “One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.”

— Kevin DeYoung

130. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

131. “Taking a strange book seriously, Leviticus 18, 20.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

133. “Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption.”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung

137. “There is no other book like the Bible. It reveals a different kind of wisdom, comes from a different source, and tells of a different love.”

— Kevin DeYoung

138. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

139. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

140. “Many of us have had it so good that we have started looking for heaven on earth. We have lost any sort of pilgrim attitude. It’s all a matter of perspective. If you think that God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live though 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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

141. “We’re not only living lives of vanity; our passion for God is often nothing more than a passion to have God make our search for vanity a successful one.”

— Kevin DeYoung

142. “When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone’s joy.”

— Kevin DeYoung

143. “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?”

— Kevin DeYoung

144. “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.”

— Kevin DeYoung

145. “Opportunities have often felt like obligations to me.”

— Kevin DeYoung

146. “What makes the Bible utterly unlike any other book – religious or otherwise – is the unsurpassed grace we encounter in its pages. We need Scripture because without it we cannot know the love of God.”

— Kevin DeYoung

147. “When you share the gospel, you’re not calling people to a better way of life, you’re proclaiming to them eternal life.”

— Kevin DeYoung

148. “The best-looking Christian is the one growing by the Spirit into the likeness of Christ.”

— Kevin DeYoung

149. “Why should we think that we wouldn’t have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?”

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Kevin DeYoung