David Platt Quotes - Page 2

The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with him, the more we want him. The more we taste of him, the more we enjoy him. And this transforms how we live and what we live for.

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

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

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

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.

The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us?

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.

We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.

The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him.

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.

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.

To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.

The primary reward of the gospel - God himself

God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

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

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

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

Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.