Kevin DeYoung Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.”
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“The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply”
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“Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.”
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“Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.”
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“Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God”
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“Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.”
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“Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God.”
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“The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.”
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“Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.”
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“The word of God is more than enough for the people of God to live their lives to the glory of God”
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“...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.”
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“The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.”
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“You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. 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.”
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“Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord”
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“When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.”
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“The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation is not complete, we must admit that somehow the work of redemption also remains unfinished. . . . Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together.”
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“Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.”
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“To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.”
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“Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.”
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“For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.”
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“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.”
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“If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.”
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“The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm”
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“Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.”
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“It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.”
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“The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.”
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“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.”
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“The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.”
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“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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“The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us”
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