Top 200 David Platt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.”

— David Platt

2. “Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.”

— David Platt

3. “If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.”

— David Platt

4. “Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.”

— David Platt

5. “Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They’re hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken.”

— David Platt

6. “I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.”

— David Platt

7. “Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.”

— David Platt

8. “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

9. “My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.”

— David Platt

10. “There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.”

— David Platt

11. “It’s important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.”

— David Platt

12. “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

13. “Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God.”

— David Platt

14. “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

15. “A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.”

— David Platt

16. “The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers.”

— David Platt

17. “Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.”

— David Platt

18. “Don’t underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.”

— David Platt

19. “Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.”

— David Platt

20. “Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven’t heard of God’s love in Christ.”

— David Platt

21. “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

22. “God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.”

— David Platt

23. “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

24. “May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.”

— David Platt

25. “When you come to Jesus, you don’t come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus.”

— David Platt

26. “What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?”

— David Platt

27. “Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.”

— David Platt

28. “Let me introduce you to Jesus.”

— David Platt

29. “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

30. “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

31. “People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.”

— David Platt

32. “The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.”

— David Platt

33. “We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.”

— David Platt

34. “Do we believe the reward found in Jesus is worth the risk of following Him?”

— David Platt

35. “To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.”

— David Platt

36. “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

37. “Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.”

— David Platt

38. “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

39. “Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.”

— David Platt

40. “We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.”

— David Platt

41. “Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture – maybe even our churches – turn the other way?”

— David Platt

42. “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

43. “If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all.”

— David Platt

44. “This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever.”

— David Platt

45. “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

46. “Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.”

— David Platt

47. “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

48. “The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.”

— David Platt

49. “Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.”

— David Platt

50. “Being a member of a church means so much more than standing next to someone else and singing some songs once a week. 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.”

— David Platt