Top 200 David Platt Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “Our goal as disciples is never just to believe God’s Word; our goal is to obey God’s Word.”

— David Platt

155. “A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.”

— David Platt

156. “In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.”

— David Platt

157. “Jesus has not given us an effortless step-by-step formula for impacting nations for his glory. He has given us people, and he has said, ‘Live for them. Love them, serve them, and lead them. Lead them to follow me, and lead them to lead others to follow me. In the process you will multiply the gospel to the ends of the earth.”

— David Platt

158. “Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.”

— David Platt

159. “Faith is the realization that God’s pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.”

— David Platt

160. “The war against materialism in our hearts is exactly that: a war. It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably. It requires strong and steady resolve to live out the gospel in the middle of an American dream that indentifies success as moving up the ladder, getting the bigger house, purchasing the nicer car, buying the better clothes, eating the finer food, and acquiring more things.”

— David Platt

161. “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

162. “I think the one thing that is abundantly clear from these statistics is that there are a whole lot of people in the world who think they are Christians but are not.”

— David Platt

163. “The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.”

— David Platt

164. “What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it’s glory.”

— David Platt

165. “We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.”

— David Platt

166. “Moreover, in removing race and racism from the discussion altogether, we’re paving the way for us as one race to call racism what it actually is: sin borne in a heart of pride and prejudice.”

— David Platt

167. “The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.”

— David Platt

168. “Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.”

— David Platt

169. “And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.”

— David Platt

170. “If we conclude that people can get to heaven apart from faith in Christ, then this would mean there is something else they can do to get to heaven. Such a conclusion would not only undercut the proven truth we saw in Romans; it would also be tantamount to saying to Jesus, “Thank you for what you did on the cross, but we could have gotten to God another way.”

— David Platt

171. “For the greatest way to achieve social and cultural transformation is not by focusing on social and cultural transformation, but by giving our lives to gospel proclamation – to telling others the good news of all God has done in Christ and calling them to follow him.”

— David Platt

172. “God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.”

— David Platt

173. “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

174. “Caring for the poor is one natural overflow and a necessary evidence of the presence of Christ in our hearts. If there is no sign of caring for the poor in our lives, then there is reason to at least question whether Christ is in our hearts.”

— David Platt

175. “Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.”

— David Platt

176. “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

177. “One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.”

— David Platt

178. “We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.”

— David Platt

179. “This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.”

— David Platt

180. “It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.”

— David Platt

181. “The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.”

— David Platt

182. “How will I ever show the gospel to the world if all I send is my money? Was I really so shallow as to think that my money is the answer to the needs in the world?”

— David Platt

183. “Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?”

— David Platt

184. “We have an incomprehensibly great God!”

— David Platt

185. “Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?”

— David Platt

186. “The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.”

— David Platt

187. “God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose.”

— David Platt

188. “Accept Him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don’t we need Him?”

— David Platt

189. “So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.”

— David Platt

190. “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

191. “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

192. “Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.”

— David Platt

193. “Are you really saying there’s only one way to God?′ people immediately ask. Yet even as we ask the question, we reveal the problem. If there were 1,000 ways to God, we would want 1,001. The issue is not how many ways lead to God; the issue is our autonomy before God. We want to make our own way. This is the essence of sin in the first place – trusting our way more than God’s way.”

— David Platt

194. “Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse’s other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.”

— David Platt

195. “When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.”

— David Platt

196. “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

197. “In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.”

— David Platt

198. “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

199. “We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.”

— David Platt

200. “I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.”

— David Platt