Top 200 David Platt Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream – pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.”

— David Platt

203. “I had the faith of a sermon, but not the faith of his son. – John Wesley.”

— David Platt

204. “What is it about God’s Word that creates an hunger to hear more? And not just to hear the Word but to long for it, study it, memorize it, and follow it? What causes followers of Christ around the world literally to risk their lives in order to know it?”

— David Platt

205. “Why are Bible-believing, Bible-preaching churches in America so focused on what is not in the Bible?”

— David Platt

206. “I couldn’t really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.”

— David Platt

207. “Clearly, people who claim to believe in Jesus are not assured eternity in heaven. On the contrary, only those who obey Jesus will enter his Kingdom.”

— David Platt

208. “This is Christianity: believing Christ to be everything you need for every moment you live. You live by faith in the Son of God.”

— David Platt

209. “We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.”

— David Platt

210. “God loves me so that I might make him – his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness – known among all nations.”

— David Platt

211. “Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.”

— David Platt

212. “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? How many of us are so settled in the United States that we have never once given serious thought to the possibility that God may call us to live in another country? How often are we willing to give a check to someone else as long as we don’t have to go to the tough places in the world ourselves?”

— David Platt

213. “When we delight in something, we declare our delight. When we adore someone, we announce our adoration. Isn’t this, then, the essence of worship – lifting up with our lips and our lives the one we love above everything else?”

— David Platt

214. “Here’s why. Because you and I need to remember that our homes and our health and our bank accounts and our vehicles and our jobs and our comforts in this life guarantee us nothing in this world.”

— David Platt

215. “We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God’s grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God.”

— David Platt

216. “When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It’s just common sense.”

— David Platt

217. “Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.”

— David Platt

218. “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

219. “I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.”

— David Platt

220. “But Jesus is not customizable. He has not left himself open to interpretation, adaptation, innovation, or alteration. He has revealed himself clearly through his Word, and we have no right to personalize him. Instead, he revolutionizes us.”

— David Platt

221. “The goal of the disciple of Jesus, then, is not to answer the question, “What is God’s will for my life?” The goal, instead, is to walk in God’s will on a moment-by-moment, day-by-day basis.”

— David Platt

222. “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

223. “In a culture where bigger is always better and flashy is always more effective, Jesus beckons each of us to plainly, humbly, and quietly focus our lives on people.”

— David Platt

224. “Becoming a disciple of Jesus involves far more than mere intellectual belief in him. But it certainly doesn’t involve anything less.”

— David Platt

225. “We don’t have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.”

— David Platt

226. “Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.”

— David Platt

227. “In a culture that places great emphasis on leisure, luxury, financial gain, self-improvement, and material possessions, it will be increasingly countercultural for Christians to work diligently, live simply, give sacrificially, help constructively, and invest eternally.”

— David Platt

228. “As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.”

— David Platt

229. “Craig Bellamy’s got pace, but he’s also rapid as well.”

— David Platt

230. “The Life of Christ determines everything about us.”

— David Platt

231. “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

232. “The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he’s getting at is that games in hand aren’t much good unless you turn them into points.”

— David Platt

233. “Our perspective on our possessions radically changes when we open our eyes to the needs of the world around us. When we have the courage to look in the faces of brothers and sisters whose bodies are malnourished and whose brains are deformed because they have no food, Christ will change our desires, and we will long to sacrifice our resources for the glory of his name among them.”

— David Platt

234. “This raises the bar in our own Christianity. In order to teach someone else how to pray, we need to know how to pray. In order to help someone else learn how to study the Bible, we need to be active in studying the Bible. But this is the beauty of making disciples. When we take responsibility for helping others grow in Christ, it automatically takes our own relationship with Christ to a new level.”

— David Platt

235. “We can stand with the starving or with the overfed. We can identify with poor Lazarus on his way to heaven or with the rich man on his way to hell. We can embrace Jesus while we give away our wealth, or we can walk away from Jesus while we hoard our wealth. Only time will tell what you and I choose to do with this blind spot of American Christianity in our day.”

— David Platt

236. “Sacrifice is giving away what it hurts to give. Sacrifice is not giving according to your ability; it’s giving beyond your ability.”

— David Platt

237. “This, we remember, is the great reward of the gospel: God himself. When we risk our lives to run after Christ, we discover the safety that is found only in his love, and the satisfaction that is found only in his presence. This is the eternally great reward, and we would be foolish to settle for anything less.”

— David Platt

238. “For the sake of more than a billion people today who have yet to even hear the gospel, I want to risk it all. For the sake of twenty-six thousand children who will die today of starvation or preventable disease, I want to risk it all. For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.”

— David Platt

239. “Jesus wept over those in need. He was moved with compassion for the crowds. He lived and loved to bring healing and comfort to the broken. He died for the sins of the world. So why are those of us who carry his Spirit not moved and compelled in the same way? Surely God didn’t design the gospel of Jesus to be confined to our minds and mouths in the church, yet disconnected from our emotions and actions in the world.”

— David Platt

240. “So with joy – with joy! – you sell it all, you abandon it all. Why? Because you have found something worth losing everything else for.”

— David Platt

241. “Because all things begin with God and ultimately exist for God, nothing in all creation is irrelevant to him.”

— David Platt