Kevin DeYoung Quotes

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.

Christianity is the most materialistic of all great religions.

The doctrines of Christian theology are a rhapsody of feigned and ill-invented nonsense

I think that he was a prophet. I've had a difficult time coming to terms with Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.

The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

I love the Bible.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.