241 Quotes by Kevin DeYoung

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

To paraphrase Titus 3:3, we live as slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in chaos and envy, hassled by others and hassling one another. We are all very busy, but not with what matters.

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

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

We are not our own: in so far as we can, let us therefore forget ourselves and all that is ours.

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.

Christ justifies no one whom he does not also sanctify.

We live in a permissive society that won’t count any sin against you as an adult, but will count the calories in your kids’ hot lunches.

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.