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.

— Kevin DeYoung

The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom of God surrounded by the kingdom of darkness. Just as an embassy is meant to showcase the life of a nation to the surrounding people, so the Church is meant to manifest the life of the Kingdom of God to the people around it.

— Kevin DeYoung

The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.

— Kevin DeYoung

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

— Kevin DeYoung

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

— Kevin DeYoung

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.

— Kevin DeYoung

The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.

— Kevin DeYoung

The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.

— Kevin DeYoung

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

— Kevin DeYoung

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

— Kevin DeYoung