Top 180 Kevin DeYoung Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “We don’t expect to be able to buy anything we want, because we know there is a limit to our money. But somehow we live as if time knew no bounds, when in fact time is much more limited than money.”

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152. “Opening our home to others is a wonderful gift and a neglected discipline in the church.”

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153. “But before we get up close to the trees, we should step back and make sure we are gazing upon the same forest. As is so often the case with controversial matters, we will never agree on the smaller subplots if it turns out we aren’t even telling the same story. The Bible says something about homosexuality. I hope everyone can agree on at least that much. And I hope everyone can agree that the Bible is manifestly not a book about homosexuality.”

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154. “The biblical teaching is consistent and unambiguous: homosexual activity is not God’s will for his people. Silence in the face of such clarity is not prudence, and hesitation in light of such frequency is not patience. The Bible says more than enough about homosexual practice for us to say something too.”

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155. “The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present.”

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156. “Busyness is like sin: kill it, or it will be killing you.”

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157. “Battling busyness is a community response.”

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158. “He calls us to run hard after Him, His commands, and His glory. The decision to be in God’s will is not the choice between Memphis or Fargo or engineering or art; it’s the daily decision we face to seek God’s kingdom or ours, submit to His lordship or not, live according to His rules or our own.”

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159. “God, don’t let anything unpleasant happen to anyone. Make everything in the world nice for everyone.” And when we aren’t praying this kind of prayer, we are praying for God to tell us that everything will turn out fine. That’s often what we are asking for when we pray to know the will of God. We aren’t asking for holiness, or righteousness, or an awareness of sin. We want God to tell us what to do so everything will turn out pleasant for us.”

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

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161. “The person who never sets priorities is the person who does not believe in his own finitude.”

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162. “What is wrong, and heartbreakingly foolish and wonderfully avoidable, is to live a life with more craziness than we want because we have less Jesus than we need.”

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163. “It’s hard not to conclude from a straightforward reading of Genesis 1–2 that the divine design for sexual intimacy is not any combination of persons, or even any type of two persons coming together, but one man becoming one flesh with one woman.”

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164. “As Christians we ought to fear being on the wrong side of the holy, apostolic, and universal church more than we fear being on the wrong side of discredited assumptions about progress and enlightenment.”

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165. “No secondary, man-made text can replace or be allowed to subvert our allegiance to and knowledge of the Bible.”

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166. “To paraphrase Titus 3:3, we live as slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in chaos and envy, hassled by others and hassling one another. We are all very busy, but not with what matters.”

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

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168. “God is love, but this is quite different from affirming that our culture’s understanding of love must be God.”

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169. “Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.”

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170. “If God opens the door for you to do something you know is good or necessary, be thankful for the opportunity. But other than that, don’t assume that the relative ease or difficulty of a new situation is God’s way of telling you to do one thing or the other. Remember, God’s will for your life is sanctification, and God tends to use discomfort and trials more than comfort and ease to make us holy.”

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171. “The less we expect to suffer, the more devastating suffering is to bear.”

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172. “We are not our own: in so far as we can, let us therefore forget ourselves and all that is ours.”

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173. “Our feelings matter. Our stories matter. Our friends matter. But ultimately we must search the Scriptures to see what matters most.”

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174. “The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.”

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175. “Jesus understood his mission. He was not driven by the needs of others, though he often stopped to help hurting people. He was not driven by the approval of others, though he cared deeply for the lost and the broken. Ultimately, Jesus was driven by the Spirit. He was driven by his God-given mission. He knew his priorities and did not let the many temptations of a busy life deter him from his task.”

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176. “At the Lausanne missions gathering in 2010, John Piper made the statement that “we should care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering.” He chose the word “care” quite carefully. He didn’t want to say we should do something about all suffering, because we can’t do something about everything. But we can care.”

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177. “They wish the church could be more diverse, but then leave to meet in a coffee shop with other well-educated thirtysomethings who are into film festivals, NPR, and carbon offsets.”

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178. “So much of our busyness comes down to meeting people’s expectations.”

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179. “The church needs lifers and those who can be counted on for the long haul.”

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180. “Christ justifies no one whom he does not also sanctify.”

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181. “We are busy because we try to do too many things. We do too many things because we say yes to too many people. We say yes to all these people because we want them to like us and we fear their disapproval.”

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182. “Good works should always be rooted in the good news.”

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183. “We must make learning from Him and taking time to be with Him a priority.”

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