David Platt Quotes
Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God
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.
The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
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.
The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.
Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.
Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.
I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!
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.
When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.
God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.
God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.
It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.
If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all
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.
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.
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?
In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.
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.
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.
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.
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.
God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.
The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world