241 Quotes by Kevin DeYoung

What is wrong, and heartbreakingly foolish and wonderfully avoidable, is to live a life with more craziness than we want because we have less Jesus than we need.

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

You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

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

We don't get to pick the age we will live in, and we don't get to choose all the struggles we will face. Faithfulness is ours to choose; the shape of faithfulness is God to determine.

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

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

We will have to work hard to rest.

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.