Top 40 Steve McVey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We don’t have two lives-a “spiritual” life here and a “regular” life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.”

— Steve McVey

2. “God’s covenant with Israel, known as “the Old Testament” or “Old Covenant,” called upon the people to do their part. God repeatedly told them that if they would fulfill their end of the covenant, they would be blessed, and if they didn’t, they would experience all kind of curses.”

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3. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” Take that thought.”

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4. “The old-time-religion and today’s cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common – they’re both religion. I want neither.”

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5. “Preaching grace produces fruit. Preaching law produces nuts.”

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6. “It’s important to remember that the verses in the Old Testament were addressed to the people of that covenant, and not to you.”

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7. “God wants to bring us to the understanding that we weren’t saved to do something for God. We were saved so that we might know Him in intimate daily fellowship. Do good works have a place in the Christian life?”

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8. “When somebody’s religious identity is being challenged, things are bound to turn nasty quickly.”

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9. “The Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that the Spirit of God lives in you. Verse 17 says that “the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.”

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10. “Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all.”

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11. “When we are facing the storms of life, we need to understand the importance of watching Jesus Christ. He inspires our faith, but even more, our faith originates from Him. He is our Faith. So then, faith isn’t something we have to work up from within ourselves. Instead, it is Someone who lives within us who wants to work out every detail of life’s journey. As we look at Him as our source of faith, we find a sense of that faith rising up within us.”

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12. “The Old Covenant stressed what the people had to do, but the New Covenant focuses entirely on what Christ has done on our behalf.”

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13. “The finished aspect of the work of Jesus Christ is real. We don’t finish it by our faith. We simply experience it through believing.”

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14. “Some things in life you just aren’t going to be able to think your way through – so you might as well save yourself the stress by simply trusting your way through them.”

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15. “We read or study the Bible for one reason: so that we will encounter the Living Christ. The Bible is not an end unto itself. The Bible is the divinely inspired witness that brings us to Christ Jesus.”

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16. “The Holy Spirit of God didn’t inspire the Scriptures so that we can know about God. He wrote it to bring us into an experiential knowledge of God.”

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17. “The Incarnation of God in Jesus is the greatest moment that has ever occurred in time or eternity.”

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18. “When we focus exclusively on the love of God, when we see love as the totality of His being, are we leaving out something? To say yes is to insult Divine Agape. Love is His fundamental makeup. Everything that can be known of Him must be seen through the lens of agape, or we end up presenting a god with multiple personality. Jesus proved that God is pure love by coming into the world.”

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19. “It becomes a matter of faith in faith.”

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20. “The New Testament of grace is completely different than the one under which Israel lived in the narrative of the Old Testament Scriptures.”

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21. “Augustine, one of the Church Fathers, also commented on the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament when he said, “In the Old Testament the New Testament is concealed; in the New Testament the Old Testament is revealed.”

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22. “When we come to the New Testament, we must understand how this new covenant that God has made is different from the old one. We have to see that, not only is the old covenant outdated, it has become completely obsolete.”

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23. “To unlock your Bible so that you can understand its meaning and application to your own life, it is necessary to avoid reading the whole Bible through old covenant eyes that see rules to be obeyed. That’s not what the Bible is about, and you will miss the point of Scripture altogether if you read it like an Old Covenant Jew who is still under the Law.”

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24. “You have been made right with God by the finished work of Jesus Christ. The New Covenant is a covenant of grace. It’s all His doing, and not our own, that has positioned us in Christ.”

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25. “The idea that God does His part and we have to do our part in order to experience His blessings is one of the greatest misunderstandings that affects people today. It affects how we understand the Bible. It affects how we perceive God. It affects how we live our lives.”

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26. “In Christ, we are a new creation and are defined by His Life, not our bad behavior!”

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27. “Focus on “the red letters” alone and you’ll miss much of Him in the Bible. From beginning to end, it’s all about Him!”

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28. “You have been set in the place of a child who is loved and accepted by the Father just as surely as Jesus Himself knows that love and acceptance. Your palce is the triune circle dance is as safe and secure as the place of Jesus for the staggering reason that you are in Him.”

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29. “The truth is, we in our own resources cannot forgive. However, since Christ is our life and lives in us, we realize that forgiving is what we as holy, righteous, and loving people do. It is our very nature to do so.”

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30. “There is a division in the Scriptures between the two covenants, but the one constant seamless message of the whole Bible is the grace of our Father revealed through the Son by the ministry of the Spirit.”

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31. “Grace is the expression of Love Himself, and since He is infinite, it seems reasonable to assume that we will spend time and eternity discovering more and more about the vastness of the subject.”

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32. “So we put ourselves in a dangerous place when we formulate concrete opinions about who God is without filtering our thoughts through Jesus.”

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33. “The Birthright of a Child of God God has already provided everything we need to be free in Christ.”

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34. “Our behavior does not determine who we are!”

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35. “Understanding the Trinity is more important than many Christians realize. Why does it matter that He is triune? It matters because as three in one, our God is first and foremost relational. In the eternal realm, the Father, Son, and Spirit have always existed and forever will exist in a circle of intimate love.”

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36. “To love others you must know how much you are loved.”

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37. “The challenge to have more faith about a specific outcome is often nothing more than a religious promotion for positive thinking.”

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38. “The Father, Son, and Spirit already knew and enjoyed a perfect relationship, so why else would He purpose to create a species with which He might share this love? What could possibly motivate Him to want to expand the circle? Love – that is the only possible reason. Our God is a selfless, generous, other-centered, giving God. He didn’t need you. He wanted you!”

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39. “How is the Old Covenant like the New Covenant? It isn’t!”

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40. “There is no love apart from God’s love – and as His love fills your consciousness you won’t be able to contain it!”

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41. “We must abide in Christ moment by moment, realizing that without His empowering presence the serpent of self-sufficiency will strike us, infecting us with it’s poison.”

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42. “Paul says that in order to prove the will of God in our lives, we must become like Isaac. We must totally surrender ourselves to God, yielding to His purpose regardless of what it may be. Absolute abandon to God is the foundation in knowing His will.”

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43. “Thanks be to God that Christ has set us free!”

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44. “Their holiness didn’t have a thing to do with what they did or didn’t do.”

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