Quote

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

David Platt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Platt
Heart
Trying
Harder
Greatest
Need
Needs

More quotes by David Platt

Image
Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.
David Platt
Image
We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.
David Platt
Image
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.
David Platt
Image
To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.
David Platt
Image
Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.
David Platt
Image
To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.
David Platt
Image
If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.
David Platt
Image
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
David Platt
Image
Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God 'Light momentary affliction.'
David Platt
Image
We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.
David Platt
Image
Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.
David Platt
Image
The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
David Platt
Image
The primary reward of the gospel - God himself
David Platt
Image
The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.
David Platt
Image
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.
David Platt
Image
God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.
David Platt
Image
If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.
David Platt
Image
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
David Platt
Image
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.
David Platt
Image
There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
David Platt