Kevin DeYoung Quotes

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

They will not stop fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if they can

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.