{"author":"Kevin DeYoung","author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["bible","bible-bible-ity","scriptures","word-of-god"],"id":17292,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["discernment","nostalgia","perspective","technology"],"id":33372,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["openness","parenting","pride"],"id":43361,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"Think of (the Kingdom) like the sun. As it peeks through on a cloudy day, we do not say the sun has grown. We say, 'The sun has broken through.' Our view of the sun has changed, or obstacles to the sun have been removed, but we have not changed the sun.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["church","glory-of-god"],"id":46191,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"Effective love is rarely efficient.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["humility","patience"],"id":65389,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["faith","gospel","imperatives"],"id":75828,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["addiction","curiosity","distraction"],"id":84050,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic.Granted, the church shouldn’t be happy-clappy naive about life’s struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["ecclesiology","theology"],"id":89912,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["children","churches","grandchild","grandchildren"],"id":99190,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kevin DeYoung","tags":["church"],"id":101259,"author_id":"Kevin+DeYoung"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}