Kevin DeYoung quote: "Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else. And like everyone else, your joy, your heart and your soul are in danger."

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying t...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too m...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not ...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinne...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Million...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to abs...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are ...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular c...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our sa...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

If we are busy in a hundred good things - even great things, gospel things, glorious things - but do...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the ter...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and percei...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father ...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's ey...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as ...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justific...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal ...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatev...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wif...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you liv...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved ov...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It’s about effect...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

Think of (the Kingdom) like the sun. As it peeks through on a cloudy day, we do not say the sun has ...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

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

A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confessio...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

If I keep pushing myself, I’ll finally be somebody. I’ll finally matter. I’ll finally arrive.�...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

I think the church is often a culprit in the busyness, especially in the evangelical church. Again, ...
KEVIN DEYOUNG

My temptation is to tackle everything at once, or nothing at all.
KEVIN DEYOUNG

We certainly support the basic American value of free speech, and we recognize the need for public d...
JULIE DEYOUNG

People are trapped in their superstitions and racism and it's hard to break down those barriers. Our...
DEANNA DEYOUNG

I can only thank my wife (Teresa) for putting up with this.
GARY DEYOUNG

I've been part of the (Fitness Pointe) Rowing Challenge team for seven years. The team is always a l...
GARY DEYOUNG

You know the trend when there's been a problem with gas prices is people from closer in make trips t...
GARY DEYOUNG

Britain's attention has to a large extent focused on Fergie's derrière-or bum, as they say here.
KAREN DEYOUNG

It's serious from a business perspective, because it impacts the growth and performance of the birds...
JULIE DEYOUNG

I absolutely love spending time with my family.
KEVIN ALEJANDRO

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES

I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES

I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES

I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or ...
KEVIN HART

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
KEVIN COSTNER

I don't have the option of getting fat. I like to try as much of our products as I can. Our samp...
KEVIN PLANK

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that...
KEVIN CONROY

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
KEVIN GATES

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up...
KEVIN HART

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getti...
KEVIN O'LEARY

Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into th...
KEVIN HASSETT

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.
KEVIN HART

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
KEVIN HART

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jo...
KEVIN HART

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
KEVIN HART

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.
KEVIN HART

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.
KEVIN HART

Being humble matters.
KEVIN HART

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.
KEVIN HART

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.
KEVIN HART

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.
KEVIN HART

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.
KEVIN HART

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.
KEVIN HART

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
KEVIN HART

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
KEVIN HART

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
KEVIN HART

I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.
KEVIN HART

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a smal...
KEVIN HART

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr...
KEVIN GATES

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.
KEVIN GATES

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.
KEVIN GATES

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
KEVIN GATES

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I alway...
KEVIN GATES

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.
KEVIN GATES

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about...
KEVIN GATES

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.
KEVIN GATES

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.
KEVIN GATES

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way ...
KEVIN GATES

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just ...
KEVIN GATES

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.
KEVIN GATES

I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys....
KEVIN GATES

I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
KEVIN GATES

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every pro...
KEVIN GATES

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.
KEVIN GATES

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.
KEVIN GATES

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
KEVIN GATES

I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
KEVIN GATES

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.
KEVIN GATES

When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
KEVIN GATES

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.
KEVIN HART

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. Th...
KEVIN GARNETT

If you want a friend, buy a dog.
KEVIN O'LEARY

The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-...
KEVIN BLEYER

Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi...
KEVIN BARRY

When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify ...
KEVIN MITNICK

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with...
KEVIN HART

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've ...
KEVIN HART

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
KEVIN O'LEARY

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of informati...
KEVIN MITNICK

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world'...
KEVIN WHATELY

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful futur...
KEVIN WILLIAMSON

I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner...
KEVIN GATES

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances...
KEVIN COSTNER

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investm...
KEVIN O'LEARY

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefe...
KEVIN O'LEARY

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance...
KEVIN FEIGE

To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of t...
KEVIN BLEYER

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all ...
KEVIN O'LEARY

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people wil...
KEVIN SMITH

My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay...
KEVIN PLANK

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
KEVIN COSTNER

I would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.
KEVIN CANTY

I used to go to the Hollywood YMCA when I first came here, and I was standing in front of the mirror...
KEVIN NEALON

A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to brow...
KEVIN LYNCH

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get ...
KEVIN HART

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid's a hard worker, ...
KEVIN HART

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.
KEVIN SPACEY

I am now a commander of the British Empire.
KEVIN SPACEY

I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinati...
KEVIN KWAN

I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pay...
KEVIN WILLIAMSON

I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, ...
KEVIN HART

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that make...
KEVIN HART

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.
KEVIN KEEGAN

'X-Men 1' - I did a cameo.
KEVIN FEIGE

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are ...
KEVIN SPACEY

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm...
KEVIN DURANT

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better...
KEVIN PIETERSEN

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
KEVIN O'LEARY

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
KEVIN SMITH

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into pl...
KEVIN MCCLOUD

I would also would have liked the part of the Bus Driver.
KEVIN MCDONALD

Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protec...
KEVIN BLEYER

I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other ...
KEVIN MITNICK

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don...
KEVIN SORBO

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent...
KEVIN MITNICK

I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I...
KEVIN NASH

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids w...
KEVIN RICHARDSON

I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
KEVIN PLANK

I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and ...
KEVIN WHATELY

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of...
KEVIN KELLY

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or euca...
KEVIN STARR

My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. H...
KEVIN CONNOLLY

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
KEVIN PLANK

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of ce...
KEVIN KELLY

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
KEVIN KELLY

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
KEVIN SPACEY

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That&#...
KEVIN HART

I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.
KEVIN DURANT

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. ...
KEVIN SPACEY

My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came ho...
KEVIN WALLIS

Brands are all about trust. That trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.
KEVIN PLANK

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you dri...
KEVIN WILSON

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together...
KEVIN ROSE

...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER

Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.
KEVIN HEARNE

To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible wi...
KEVIN STIRTZ

Aside from cutting off her head, though, I didn't really mean to kill her."
Granuaile laughed. ...
KEVIN HEARNE

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
KEVIN SPACEY

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wan...
KEVIN KLINE

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians.....
KEVIN COSTNER

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous th...
KEVIN BACON

Swallowing that chocolate you just ate
May have been your fatal mistake!
Your smooth complexio...
KEVIN MISSEN

The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing...
KEVIN ZEESE

IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ....
KEVIN ARNOLD

That's got to be the ultimate goal, ... that's what everybody wants to see done in the end.
KEVIN ARNOLD

I think [the digital services] will be pushing the majors to get it done in the next few years,
KEVIN ARNOLD

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want ...
KEVIN ARNOLD

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
KEVIN ARNOLD

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler ...
KEVIN PATTERSON

There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.
KEVIN BYRNE

I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
KEVIN ROSE

My Father taught me how to be a man and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda ...
KEVIN SMITH

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.
KEVIN BACON

Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else. And like everyone else, your joy, your heart and your soul are in danger.

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Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else. And like everyone else, your joy, your heart and your soul are in danger.

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