Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“There is a gap between our love for the gospel and our love for godliness. This must change. It’s not pietism, legalism,… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of holiness is not a quixotic effort to do just what Jesus did. It’s the fight to live out the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“But when we believe the gospel, and the Holy Spirit resides in us, we are free to experience the explosive current of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It’s about living in Christ and living out of our real,… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“The Great Commission is about holiness. God wants the world to know Jesus, believe in Jesus, and obey Jesus. We don’t take… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“In Christ every believer has a once-for-all positional holiness, and from this new identity every Christian is commanded to grow in the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Sure, it would be great to be a better person, and you do hope to avoid the really big sins. But you… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“We’ve been told there is a good person in all of us. We’ve been shown in a thousand movies that the purpose… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Related to this first reason is the fear that a passion for holiness makes you some kind of weird holdover from a… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“stressing the necessity of personal holiness should not undermine in any way our confidence in justification by faith alone. The best theologians… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“if the Holy One of Israel is in the business of making a holy people for himself—then why does it seem unlikely… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“If the possibility of holiness is so plain in the Bible, why do we find it so hard to believe? Probably the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Do you know why so many Christians are caving on the issue of homosexuality? Certainly cultural pressure plays a big role. But… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Worry about the future is not simply a character tic, it is the sin of unbelief, an indication that our hearts are not resting… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don’t… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers.… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
“The pursuit of holiness is not a quixotic effort to do just what Jesus did. It’s the fight to live out the life that… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can't bear somebody else's burden unless you are taking something… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
“Faith and good works are both necessary. But one is the root and the other the fruit.” — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share
