Kevin DeYoung Quotes

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.