Ptrn Deyoung Quotes

I can turn every "is" into "ought ". ~ Kevin DeYoung

Christ justifies no one whom he does not also sanctify. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Battling busyness is a community response. ~ Kevin DeYoung

God's grace saves us from ourselves. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Effective love is rarely efficient. ~ Kevin DeYoung

God's will is always your sanctification. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Opportunities have often felt like obligations to me. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Real life applications get tricky when we think about them. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Homosexual practice is an example on a horizontal plane of our vertical rebellion against God. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Busyness must start with the one sin that begets so many of our other sins: pride. ~ Kevin DeYoung

No one who truly delights in God's word will be indifferent to the disregarding of it. ~ Kevin DeYoung

We will have to work hard to rest. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Your tolerance is not love. It is unfaithfulness. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Fellowship with Christ does not exist apart from fealty to Christ. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The world stands for everything that opposes the will of God. ~ Kevin DeYoung

They've willingly embraced Christian freedom but without an equal pursuit of Christian virtue. Among ~ Kevin DeYoung

A theologically astute, immature Christian is like a 5-year-old flying an Apache helicopter. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The church needs lifers and those who can be counted on for the long haul. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Good works should always be rooted in the good news ~ Kevin DeYoung

Fourth, Jesus himself reinforces the normativity of the Genesis account. ~ Kevin DeYoung

My temptation is to tackle everything at once, or nothing at all. ~ Kevin DeYoung

But friendship and love cannot survive without truthfulness, nor can a healthy view of ourselves. ~ Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

The happiest and most fulfilled times of my life have all involved a prolonged separation from the Internet. ~ Kevin DeYoung

We have to schedule time to be unscheduled. ~ Kevin DeYoung

We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don't even notice the most important things slipping away. ~ Kevin DeYoung

No secondary, man-made text can replace or be allowed to subvert our allegiance to and knowledge of the Bible. ~ Kevin DeYoung

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. ~ Kevin DeYoung

In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The best-looking Christian is the one growing by the Spirit into the likeness of Christ. ~ Kevin DeYoung

When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability. ~ Kevin DeYoung

We wake up most days not trying to serve, just trying to survive. ~ Kevin DeYoung

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness. ~ Kevin DeYoung

They took a bite from the forbidden fruit, and the fruit bit back. ~ Kevin DeYoung

You can borrow time, but you can't steal it. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The less we expect to suffer, the more devastating suffering is to bear. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good? ~ Kevin DeYoung

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

God's timing is rarely our timing. ~ Kevin DeYoung

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

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. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord ~ Kevin DeYoung

When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Fifth, the redemptive-historical significance of marriage as a divine symbol in the Bible only works if the marital couple is a complementary pair. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Keep sharing the good news; we have not yet exhausted the number of God's elect. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The person who never sets priorities is the person who does not believe in his own finitude. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less. ~ Kevin DeYoung

When it comes to sanctification, it's more important where you're going than where you are. ~ Kevin DeYoung

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him. ~ Kevin DeYoung

But this is my greatest need and yours: to know God, love God, delight in God, and make much of God. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory. ~ Kevin DeYoung

One of the most resilient and cherished myths of parenting is that parenting creates the child. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Worry and anxiety reflect our hearts' distrust in the goodness and sovereignty of God. Worry is a spiritual issue and must be fought with faith. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Our feelings matter. Our stories matter. Our friends matter. But ultimately we must search the Scriptures to see what matters most. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive. ~ Kevin DeYoung

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

We're not consistent. We're not stable. We don't stick with anything. Most of the time we can't even make decisions. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Detachment from the pressing need to have my achievements be counted publicly is possible when I have a strong sense of being known and loved by God. ~ Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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

Taking a strange book seriously, Leviticus 18, 20 ~ Kevin DeYoung

Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Christlikeness is possible, but not by merely working with Jesus or simply imitating his example. Only by knowing our position in Jesus can we begin to live like Jesus. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all. ~ Kevin DeYoung

All our sins are offensive to God and require forgiveness. But over and over the Bible teaches that some sins are worse than others. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm ~ Kevin DeYoung

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore. ~ Kevin DeYoung

As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise. ~ Kevin DeYoung

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. ~ Kevin DeYoung

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. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort. ~ Kevin DeYoung

You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins. ~ Kevin DeYoung

What makes the Bible utterly unlike any other book - religious or otherwise - is the unsurpassed grace we encounter in its pages. We need Scripture because without it we cannot know the love of God. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The whole of the Christian life, from election to justification to sanctification to final glorification, is made possible by and is an expression of our union with Christ. ~ Kevin DeYoung

There is no more authoritative declaration than what we find in the word of God, no firmer ground to stand on, no "more final" argument that can be spoken after Scripture has spoken. ~ Kevin DeYoung

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. ~ Kevin DeYoung

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. ~ Kevin DeYoung

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. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Jesus knew the difference between urgent and important. He understood that all the good things he could do were not necessarily the things he ought to do. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The central plotline of the story of Scripture was set in motion: a holy God making a way to dwell in the midst of an unholy people. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Grab them with passion. Win them with love. Hold them with holiness. Challenge them with truth. Amaze them with God. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible. ~ Kevin DeYoung

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency. ~ Kevin DeYoung

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. ~ Kevin DeYoung

It would be bad enough if we were just restless, meandering through life, and a little cowardly. But we've spiritualized restless and meandering cowardice, making it feel like piety instead of passivity. ~ Kevin DeYoung

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The Bible can no more fail, falter, or err, than God himself can fail, falter, or err. ~ Kevin DeYoung

God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have. ~ Kevin DeYoung

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ. ~ Kevin DeYoung

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world. ~ Kevin DeYoung

We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future. ~ Kevin DeYoung