Top 200 David Platt Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.”

— David Platt

53. “I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!”

— David Platt

54. “James 1:22 is the theme verse of the entire book of James. It says, “But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”

— David Platt

55. “By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.”

— David Platt

56. “God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.”

— David Platt

57. “People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians.”

— David Platt

58. “Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.”

— David Platt

59. “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

60. “Man’s greatest need, then, is not to try to clean his hands or fix his life on the outside; man’s greatest need is a changed heart on the inside. Holiness begins in the heart, and only Jesus can produce this kind of change.”

— David Platt

61. “The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price.”

— David Platt

62. “Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.”

— David Platt

63. “When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.”

— David Platt

64. “The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world.”

— David Platt

65. “God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth.”

— David Platt

66. “God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.”

— David Platt

67. “Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.”

— David Platt

68. “God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.”

— David Platt

69. “Why do you think Jesus would look at the crowds around him with all their deep needs and then turn to his disciples and tell them to pray for themselves? The answer is humbling. When Jesus looked at the harassed and helpless multitudes, apparently his concern was not that the lost would not come to the Father. Instead, his concern was that his followers would not go to the lost.”

— David Platt

70. “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

71. “If our lives do not reflect the fruit of following Jesus, then we are foolish to think that we are actually followers of Jesus in the first place.”

— David Platt

72. “What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?”

— David Platt

73. “If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.”

— David Platt

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God’s presence, and you deserved nothing but God’s wrath.”

— David Platt

80. “The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don’t like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.”

— David Platt

81. “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

82. “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

83. “Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.”

— David Platt

84. “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

85. “We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that’s full of sin.”

— David Platt

86. “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

87. “I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.”

— David Platt

88. “The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God’s Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.”

— David Platt

89. “We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.”

— David Platt

90. “Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.”

— David Platt

91. “We pick and choose what we like and don’t like from Jesus’ teachings. In the end, we create a nice, non-offensive, politically correct, middle-class, American Jesus who looks just like us and thinks just like us. But Jesus is not customizable.”

— David Platt

92. “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

93. “We are not the end of the gospel; God is.”

— David Platt

94. “Satan’s strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan’s strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; ‘Light momentary affliction.’”

— David Platt

95. “We don’t have to ask what the will of God is; he has made it clear. He wants his people to provide for the poor, to value the unborn, to care for orphans and widows, to rescue people from slavery, to defend marriage, to war against sexual immorality in all its forms in every area of our lives, to love our neighbors as ourselves regardless of their ethnicity, to practice faith regardless of the risk, and to proclaim the gospel to all nations. Of these things we are sure.”

— David Platt

96. “Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.”

— David Platt

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

— David Platt

98. “This is the stunning message of Christianity: Jesus died for you so that he might live in you. Jesus doesn’t merely improve your old nature; he imparts to you an entirely new nature – one that is completely united with his.”

— David Platt

99. “It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.”

— David Platt

100. “We are molding Jesus into our image. He’s beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is who we are most comfortable with. The danger now is when we gather in our church buildings to sing, and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the Bible. Instead, we may be worshiping ourselves.”

— David Platt