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Kevin DeYoung Quotes | Quotes said by Kevin DeYoung

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #1

    As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.


  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #2

    Battling busyness is a community response.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #3

    Effective love is rarely efficient.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #4

    God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don't do that, I'm being unfaithful and sinful.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #5

    I can turn every is into ought .

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #6

    I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic.

    Granted, the church shouldn’t be happy-clappy naive about life’s struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #7

    I think most Christians hear these urgent calls to do more (or feel them internally already) and learn to live with a low-level guilt that comes from not doing enough. We know we can always pray more and give more and evangelize more, so we get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #8

    I think the church is often a culprit in the busyness, especially in the evangelical church. Again, it's part of being Americans. Part of being evangelicals too is that we're highly activist. We are always diving in, willing to solve problems, and again there's a lot good there. But we also need the theological balance that the Kingdom is not ours to bring or ours to create.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #9

    I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #10

    I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #11

    If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I’m sunk. This is law and no gospel.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #12

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

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #13

    In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #14

    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 Quote #15

    Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #16

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

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #17

    My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church? I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #18

    Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #19

    One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #20

    Opportunities have often felt like obligations to me.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #21

    Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #22

    The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom of God surrounded by the kingdom of darkness. Just as an embassy is meant to showcase the life of a nation to the surrounding people, so the Church is meant to manifest the life of the Kingdom of God to the people around it.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #23

    The Heidelberg Catechism is like a refreshing bath with cool gospel water.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #24

    The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #25

    The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #26

    The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #27

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

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #28

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

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #29

    The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

  • Kevin DeYoung Quote #30

    The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

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