Quotes from David Platt

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

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

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

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.

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.

Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ's pursuit of us.

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 the face and say, "No."

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don't come to Him.

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

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.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.

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.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

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

BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.