Top 200 David Platt Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.”

— David Platt

102. “God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.”

— David Platt

103. “The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.”

— David Platt

104. “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

105. “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

106. “Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?”

— David Platt

107. “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

108. “Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone’s mind, heart, heart, and life.”

— David Platt

109. “God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.”

— David Platt

110. “This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.”

— David Platt

111. “We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, ‘No.’”

— David Platt

112. “God’s glory is most majestically displayed not through you were through me, but through US. God raises up the Church, and says to all Creation in the heavens, on the Earth, and under the Earth, this is the bride and body of My Son, bought and purchased by His blood to be My people and receive My power, and enjoy My presence, and declare My praise forever and ever.”

— David Platt

113. “Almost unknowingly, we all have a tendency to redefine Christianity according to our own tastes, preferences, church traditions, and cultural norms. Slowly, subtly, we take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into someone with whom we are a little more comfortable. We.”

— David Platt

114. “Jim Elliot once said, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Radical obedience to Christ is not easy; it is dangerous. It is not smooth sailing aboard a luxury liner; it is sacrificial duty aboard a troop carrier. 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

115. “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

116. “God in His providence hasn’t called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.”

— David Platt

117. “God’s revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.”

— David Platt

118. “The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.”

— David Platt

119. “And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.”

— David Platt

120. “We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.”

— David Platt

121. “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

122. “Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.”

— David Platt

123. “The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.”

— David Platt

124. “Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.”

— David Platt

125. “The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.”

— David Platt

126. “Though you and I find ourselves surrounded by the lure of temporary pleasure, we must fasten our affections on the one who promises eternal treasure that will never spoil or fade. If your life or my life is going to count on earth, we must start by concentrating on heaven. For then, and only then, will you and I be free to take radical risk, knowing that what awaits us is radical reward.”

— David Platt

127. “We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.”

— David Platt

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

— David Platt

129. “Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against.”

— David Platt

130. “How many of us are embracing the comforts of suburban America while we turn a deaf ear to inner cities in need of the gospel?”

— David Platt

131. “Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.”

— David Platt

132. “Some wonder if it is unfair for God to allow so many to have no knowledge of the gospel. But 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. That is unfair.”

— David Platt

133. “It’s as if Jesus is saying to him, “Give what you have to the poor; I’ll give you something better.” In the end, Jesus is not calling this man away from treasure; he’s calling him to treasure. When we understand the passage in this way, we begin to realize that materialism is not just sinful; it’s stupid.”

— David Platt

134. “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

135. “We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves.”

— David Platt

136. “That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.”

— David Platt

137. “We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.”

— David Platt

138. “If people are dying and going to hell without ever even knowing there is a gospel, then we clearly have no time to waste our lives on the American dream.”

— David Platt

139. “We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.”

— David Platt

140. “The worst thing we can do for the needy is neglect them. The second worst thing we can do is subsidize them, helping people get through a day while ignoring how we can help people get through their lives.”

— David Platt

141. “We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.”

— David Platt

142. “No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.”

— David Platt

143. “You and I can choose to continue with business as usual in the Christian life and in the church as a whole, enjoying success based on the standards defined by the culture around us. Or we can take an honest look at the Jesus of the Bible and dare to ask what the consequences might be if we really believed him and really obeyed him.”

— David Platt

144. “Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.”

— David Platt

145. “It is not that he needs to stop his sexual immorality to be saved. That would mean he would need to earn his salvation. No, he needs to trust in Christ, which will result in a changed heart with a desire to obey Christ in this area of his life.”

— David Platt

146. “Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.”

— David Platt

147. “And what if Christ’s call in our lives is not to comfort in our culture? What if Christ in us actually compels us to counter our culture?”

— David Platt

148. “The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.”

— David Platt

149. “Why are so many supposed Christians sitting on the sidelines of the church, maybe even involved in the machinery of the church, but not wholeheartedly, passionately, sacrificially, and joyfully giving their lives to making disciples of all the nations? Could it be because so many people in the church have settled for superficial religion instead of supernatural regeneration?”

— David Platt

150. “As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven’t even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.”

— David Platt