David Platt famous quotes

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
-- David Platt

#Greatness #People #Way

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Believe #Decision

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.
-- David Platt

#Christian #Powerful #Inspiration

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.
-- David Platt

#Order #Needs #Culture

In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Mean #Self

The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.
-- David Platt

#Letting Go #Safety #Risk

Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is . . . if we’re not witnessing, there’s a problem with our worship. We’re not seeing God for who He is! We’re not realizing what He’s done! We’re not realizing the magnitude of what He’s done for our souls!
-- David Platt

#Mean #Soul #Passionate

I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self, says you are inherently good and you have in you what it takes to be successful so do all you can, work with everything you have to make much of yourself. The gospel begins with God, the reality that we were created to exalt his name to the ends of the earth.
-- David Platt

#Dream #Believe #Successful

To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Safe #Depth

As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.
-- David Platt

#Dying #Normal #Obedience

When God tells us to give extravagantly, we can trust Him to do the same in our lives. And this is really the core issue of it all. Do we trust Him? Do we trust Jesus when He tells us to give radically for the sake of the poor? Do we trust Him to provide for us when we begin using the resources He has given us to provide for others? Do we trust Him to know what is best for our lives, our families, and our financial futures?
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Issues #Giving

We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.
-- David Platt

#Moving #Glory

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. 
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Settling #Obedience

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
-- David Platt

#Messages #Christianity #Settling

God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.
-- David Platt

#Concern #Ultimate

The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.
-- David Platt

#Love You #Biblical #Enemy

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.
-- David Platt

#Wish #Looks #Care

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.
-- David Platt

#Trust In God #Lifetime #Eternity

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.
-- David Platt

#Ready

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.
-- David Platt

#Biblical #People #Grace

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.
-- David Platt

#Church #World #Materialistic

We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.
-- David Platt

#Encouraging #Fighting #Needs

God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.
-- David Platt

#News #Way #Salvation

The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Strategy #Mega

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.
-- David Platt

#May

If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions, develop programs, and create foundations… But Jesus is so different from us. With the task of taking the gospel to the world, he wandered through the streets and byways…All He wanted was a few men who would think as He did, love as He did, see as He did, teach as He did and serve as He did. All He needed was to revolutionize the hearts of a few, and they would impact the world.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Heart #Men

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
-- David Platt

#Dream #Goal #American Dream

The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
-- David Platt

#Nice #World #Glory

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!
-- David Platt

#Hands #Want

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Wealth #Prosperity

The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with him, the more we want him. The more we taste of him, the more we enjoy him. And this transforms how we live and what we live for.
-- David Platt

#Soul #Want #Taste

The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response. In the process of hearing Jesus, you are compelled to take an honest look at your life, your family, and your church and not just ask, 'What is he saying?' but also ask, 'What shall I do?'
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Reflection #Church

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?
-- David Platt

#Careers #Used #Needed

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.
-- David Platt

#Heaven #Sides #Hell

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.
-- David Platt

#Biblical #Understanding #Needs

Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location.
-- David Platt

#Christian #Taken #Way

Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
-- David Platt

#Share #Command #Disciple

No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us?
-- David Platt

#Cities #Air #Guitar

Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.
-- David Platt

#Heaven #World #Hell

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?
-- David Platt

#People #Inspire #What If

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.
-- David Platt

#Needs

We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
-- David Platt

#Giving #Looks #Demand

Making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching people the Word of Christ and then enabling them to do the same thing in other people’s lives—this is the plan God has for each of us to impact nations for the glory of Christ
-- David Platt

#Teaching #Impact #People

For God to be holy does not just mean He is without error. It means He is without equal. May it not be said of any one of us that there is not respect for the author of the universe. He is sovereign over all nature, over all nations and over every single one of our lives.
-- David Platt

#Mean #Errors #Doe

Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
-- David Platt

#Doe #Christianity #Christ

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.
-- David Platt

#Encouraging #Trying #Our Actions

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.
-- David Platt

#Church #Attendance #Weight

The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him.
-- David Platt

#Lonely #Jesus #Heaven

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.
-- David Platt

#Dream #Believe #Home

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.
-- David Platt

#Prayer #Purpose

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
-- David Platt

#Care #Poor #Outcast

As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.
-- David Platt

#Wrath #Race #Hands

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.
-- David Platt

#Children #Orphan #I Realized

The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.
-- David Platt

#People #Spirit #Worship

Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."
-- David Platt

#Audacity #Looks #Faces

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.
-- David Platt

#Christian #Lying #Giving

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.
-- David Platt

#Teacher #Religious #Jesus

So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.
-- David Platt

#Selfish #Caring #Differences

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.
-- David Platt

#Body #Kingdoms #Christ

The primary reward of the gospel - God himself
-- David Platt

#Rewards

God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him.
-- David Platt

#Thinking #Delight #Facts

What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?
-- David Platt

#What If #Band #Knees

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.
-- David Platt

#World #Sovereign #Facts

The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough.
-- David Platt

#Simple #Sick #Soul

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
-- David Platt

#Depth #Christ #Our Relationship

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.
-- David Platt

#People #Inability #Needs

Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.
-- David Platt

#Encouraging #Jesus #Doe

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
-- David Platt

#Spiritual #Community #Body

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
-- David Platt

#Joy #Dying #Purpose

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.
-- David Platt

#No Strings Attached #Life Is #Checks

God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, 'You go there,' and He says to the seas, 'You stop here, and they do it. Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator...until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.
-- David Platt

#Rain #Fall #Blow

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians
-- David Platt

#Christian #People #Different

The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark
-- David Platt

#Christian #Dream #Dark

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
-- David Platt

#Who We Are #Revelations

Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making
-- David Platt

#Christian #Teaching #Focus

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth
-- David Platt

#People #Grace #Earth

BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.
-- David Platt

#Self #Safety #Concern

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.
-- David Platt

#Debt #World #Christ

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
-- David Platt

#Dream #Assumption #Accepting

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
-- David Platt

#Inward #Transformation #Follow Me

We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.
-- David Platt

#Retirement #Taken #Eye

Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.
-- David Platt

#Needs #Praying #Provision

If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.
-- David Platt

#Giving #Important #Purpose

The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.
-- David Platt

#Christ

The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.
-- David Platt

#People #Leader #Church

And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.
-- David Platt

#Generosity #Needs #Earth

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.
-- David Platt

#Heart #Trying #Needs

We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.
-- David Platt

#Real #Names #Arms

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
-- David Platt

#Encouraging #Thinking #Way

Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.
-- David Platt

#People #Impossible #Accomplish

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.
-- David Platt

#Hands #Want #Glory

Let me introduce you to Jesus.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Introducing #Let Me

Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.
-- David Platt

#Brother #Jesus #Mean

If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.
-- David Platt

#Want #Way

We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
-- David Platt

#World #Goodness #This World

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Given #Command

Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Surrender #Accepted

Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. . . We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him?
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Prayer #Taken

Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
-- David Platt

#Heart #Wrestling #Grace

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.
-- David Platt

#People #Serious #Sin