349 Quotes by David Platt

"Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes."

"Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making"

"If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church."

"People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is."

"If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all"

"When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus"

"And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues."

"This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever."

"We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God."

"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."