All David Platt Quotes
- When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels. Changes
- Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die. Came
- And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us. Came
- The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever. Bible
- To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God. Christian
- 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. Christian
- Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world. Christianity
- 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… Believe
- Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation. Clearly
- He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration. Came
- Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today. Believe
- This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. Apart
- 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… Across
- We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. Accommodate
- The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things. According
- I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes. Attributes
- 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… Afraid
- This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart… Assume
- 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. Disobey
- Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in… All
- 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… Condition
- 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… Challenge
- The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. Ability
- While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God. American
- Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative… Associates