Quotes About Dever

#1. Again, we are humble because we know we are not the power to change the heart. But we are obedient because we know we are the necessary means ordained by our sovereign God by which the light comes to those in darkness.

Mark Dever

#2. According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Mark Dever

#3. In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.

Kaitlyn Dever

#4. Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission; not by our blood, but by His.

Mark Dever

#5. I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

Kaitlyn Dever

#6. I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

Mark Dever

#7. When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn't just join a local church because it's a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it's the expression of what Christ has made him - a member of the body of Christ.

Mark Dever

#8. We are humble because we know we are not the power in salvation. We are obedient because we know we possess the light.

Mark Dever

#9. Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling.

Seamus Dever

#10. Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.

Mark Dever

#11. I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.

Kaitlyn Dever

#12. Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

Mark Dever

#13. Today is what the Lord has prepared you for.

Mark Dever

#14. If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell.

Mark Dever

#15. Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.

Kaitlyn Dever

#16. What about for your church? What boundaries has the gospel overrun that society fiercely respects?

Mark Dever

#17. I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.

Seamus Dever

#18. Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church's job is to listen and then to echo.

Mark Dever

#19. We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

Mark Dever

#20. When our eyes fall from God to humanity, social ills replace sin, horizontal problems replace the fundamental vertical problem between us and God, winning elections eclipses winning souls.

Mark Dever

#21. Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

Mark Dever

#22. Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

Mark Dever

#23. God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.

Mark Dever

#24. It got to a point where there were so many apps and stuff on my phone that I started getting overwhelmed because there were so many things to check. Just Instagram and Twitter are what I stick to these day.

Kaitlyn Dever

#25. By the grace of God I am what I am

Mark Dever

#26. Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost.

Mark Dever

#27. Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

Mark Dever

#28. Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It's not necessarily about falling in love.

Seamus Dever

#29. If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.

Seamus Dever

#30. I feel like Eurovision is a parallel dimension. It reminds me of 'Dance Fever' and 'Solid Gold' when I was a kid. Then when you hear these songs sung in English by someone who may or may not understand the words, the unique awesomeness hits you.

Seamus Dever

#31. I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too.

Seamus Dever

#32. Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

Mark Dever

#33. I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.

Kaitlyn Dever

#34. Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

Kaitlyn Dever

#35. A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

Mark Dever

#36. The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.

Mark Dever

#37. Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.

Mark Dever

#38. There is nothing like being on stage.

Seamus Dever

#39. I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

Kaitlyn Dever

#40. I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.

Kaitlyn Dever

#41. If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all!

Mark Dever

#42. A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.

Seamus Dever

#43. Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.

Mark Dever

#44. not the writings that come from prophets inspired by the one true God revealed in Jesus Christ, then why do we find those passages as proof of who Jesus is?" In other words, they turned the old argument that had been used in the context of Jewish evangelism around. It's not

Mark Dever

#45. God's Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.

Mark Dever

#46. The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

Mark Dever

#47. 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

Kaitlyn Dever

#48. Sin claims to free but in fact it kills.

Mark Dever

#49. Doubt not your purpose nor your strength.

Joe Dever

#50. Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

Mark Dever

#51. I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

Kaitlyn Dever

#52. When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

Kaitlyn Dever

#53. Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.

Mark Dever

#54. It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.

Kaitlyn Dever

#55. We do live best in this world when we keep the next in mind.

Mark Dever

#56. The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

Mark Dever

#57. As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

Mark Dever

#58. The church has not been given authority to make commandments; it is the duty of the church to obey the commandments already made. It is not the prerogative nor the privilege of any church to modify, minimize or in any way obscure . . . any commandment, of Jesus Christ.8

Mark Dever

#59. My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like, arching exercises or anything, I promise!

Seamus Dever

#60. I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

Kaitlyn Dever

#61. Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all." (The Message of the Old Testament, p. 536)

Mark Dever

#62. the most basic level of commitment by a Christian to his church is surprisingly substantial.

Mark Dever

#63. It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

Seamus Dever

#64. Our fears lie to us about how important they are.

Mark Dever

#65. Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Mark Dever

#66. For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

Mark Dever

#67. I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

Seamus Dever

#68. Working with my hands keeps me sane.

Seamus Dever

#69. My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools.

Seamus Dever

#70. A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact, a healthy church is unlike any organization that man has ever devised, because man didn't devise it.

Mark Dever

#71. Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

Mark Dever

#72. The first step toward the one true God is to acknowledge that we are not that God.

Mark Dever

#73. I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

Kaitlyn Dever

#74. Prayer is the preview of God's action.

Mark Dever

#75. I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

Kaitlyn Dever