Kevin DeYoung Quotes

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

Sanctification is not regeneration.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

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

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

I am trying to get closer to God.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.