Top 100 Kevin DeYoung Quotes
#1. But we all live somewhere and must swim in the water around us. I can't help but deal with the realities of life as I experience them in the United States.
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#2. Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?
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#3. Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else. And like everyone else, your joy, your heart and your soul are in danger.
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#4. No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.
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#5. Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.
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#6. Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.
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#7. No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.
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#8. You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.
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#9. When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.
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#10. Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.
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#11. All our sins are offensive to God and require forgiveness. But over and over the Bible teaches that some sins are worse than others.
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#12. As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.
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#13. I tell my congregation at times, "You don't have to feel conviction for every sermon. Some of you are actually obedient and faithful in this area." Not perfectly, of course, but truly and sincerely.
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#14. If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.
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#15. When we use old confessions and catechisms, we help teach our people that their faith is an old faith, shared by millions over many centuries. We also help them realize that other Christians have asked the same questions.
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#16. God's way is not to show us what tomorrow looks like or even to tell us what decisions we should make tomorrow. That's not His way because that's not the way of faith. God's way is to tell us that He knows tomorrow, He cares for us, and therefore, we should not worry. Verse
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#17. 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.
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#18. If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.
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#19. Marriage, by its very nature, requires complementarity. The mystical union of Christ and the church - each "part" belonging to the other but neither interchangeable - cannot be pictured in marital union without the differentiation of male and female.
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#20. God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.
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#21. Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.
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#22. The Bible can no more fail, falter, or err, than God himself can fail, falter, or err.
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#23. Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place.
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#24. The person who never sets priorities is the person who does not believe in his own finitude.
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#25. Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.
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#26. I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.
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#27. One of the most resilient and cherished myths of parenting is that parenting creates the child.
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#28. We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.
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#29. Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
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#30. Margin," Swenson says, "is the space between our load and our limits.
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#31. The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude, and trust in the providence of God.
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#32. As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.
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#33. Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.
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#34. As painful as it can be, we must reinterpret our experiences through the Word of God, rather than let our experiences dictate what the Bible can and cannot mean.
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#35. It's true that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:1), but this does not mean God will condone all our thoughts and behaviors. Though in Christ he overlooks our sins in a judicial sense, he is not blind to them.
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#36. The Spirit is like God's engagement ring saying to us, "This promise is only the beginning. You have no idea how much I will bless you. There is a wedding feast coming to you that you wouldn't believe. But I've given you my Spirit so you will believe that it is coming.
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#37. 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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#38. Busyness must start with the one sin that begets so many of our other sins: pride.
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#39. Sanctification is at base a tenacious grip on the robe of Christ, a wrestling with the Lord to bless us, a sojourn in the valley of death in pursuit of a city we cannot see.
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#40. We need the Word of God to set us free. We need biblical wisdom to set us straight. What we need is the Great Physician to heal our overscheduled souls.
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#41. 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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#42. No one who truly delights in God's word will be indifferent to the disregarding of it.
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#43. 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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#44. You can't make sense of the Bible without understanding that God is holy and that this holy God is intent on making a holy people to live with him forever in a holy heaven.
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#45. The church needs lifers and those who can be counted on for the long haul.
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#46. In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.
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#47. Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.
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#48. The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.
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#49. One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way.
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#50. Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.
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#51. Most people leaving church still see the need for some kind of community. We shouldn't think most of them as interested in lone-ranger Christianity. Often, these ex-churchgoers meet together for prayer, accountability, and encouragement.
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#52. Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God
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#53. 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.
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#54. Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.
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#55. 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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#56. Scripture warns us against pursuing sexual practice inconsistent with being in Christ. When we tolerate the doctrine which affirms homosexual behavior, we are tolerating a doctrine which leads people further from God.
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#57. God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?
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#58. 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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#59. No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.
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#60. Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.
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#61. The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.
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#63. To affirm the sufficiency of Scripture is not to suggest that the Bible tells us everything we want to know about everything, but it does tell us everything we need to know about what matters most.
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#64. Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.
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#69. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seeing them all come true. You were meant for something more. Even if you could be known the world over, what does it matter if you have no time to be known by God?
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#70. 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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#71. Keep sharing the good news; we have not yet exhausted the number of God's elect.
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#72. The less we expect to suffer, the more devastating suffering is to bear.
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#73. The purpose of Holy Scripture is not ultimately to make you smart, or make you relevant, or make you rich, or get you a job, or get you married, or take all your problems away, or tell you where to live. The aim is that you might be wise enough to put your faith in Christ and be saved.
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#74. Third, only two persons of the opposite sex can fulfill the procreative purposes of marriage.
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#75. Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption
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#76. Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.
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#77. Some Christians make the mistake of pitting love against law, as if the two were mutually exclusive. You either have a religion of love or a religion of law. But such an equation is profoundly unbiblical.
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#78. Opening our home to others is a wonderful gift and a neglected discipline in the church.
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#79. Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord
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#80. Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.
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#81. Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.
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#82. Taking a strange book seriously, Leviticus 18, 20
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#83. Fueling all of our conflict against Satan is prayer: we are to pray "at all times in the Spirit" for the promotion and success of the gospel (Eph. 6:18). We need to pray, as 1 Thessalonians 5:17 also teaches, "without ceasing.
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#84. If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.
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#85. Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.
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#86. Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.
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#87. The best-looking Christian is the one growing by the Spirit into the likeness of Christ.
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#88. There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.
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#89. But when we believe the gospel, and the Holy Spirit resides in us, we are free to experience the explosive current of holiness that flows from the Godhead into the soul of a believer.
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#91. 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.
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#92. 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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#93. Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.
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#94. God does expect us to say no to a whole lot of good things so that we can be freed up to say yes to the most important things he has for us.
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#95. God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.
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#96. 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.
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#97. We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy. I'll quote it in my sermons from time to time. I've seen the Catechism used effectively as Sunday school material.
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#98. How many of us feel this strange mix of busyness and lifelessness?
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#99. At the same time, in death he would succeed where all others had failed, so that instead of an angel guarding the entrance to God's presence so we cannot enter in, we find an angel at the empty tomb telling us that Christ has gotten out.
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#100. 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.
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