Top 100 Platt Quotes
#1. Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt
Sean Paul
#2. Well, girls always love assholes," said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. "Haven't you noticed?" No, I thought bleakly, untrue. Else why didn't Pippa love me?
Donna Tartt
#3. As my friend Oliver Platt used to say to me about hopes and dreams I'd share with him: 'It's coming, just not on your time frame.
Lauren Graham
#4. They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.
William Henry Ashley
#5. She told me she loved him." "Well, girls always love assholes," said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. "Haven't you noticed?
Donna Tartt
#6. You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
Gabriel Basso
#7. 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.
David Platt
#8. 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.
David Platt
#9. But out of this group of "born-again Christians," researchers found that their beliefs and lifestyles are virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world around them.
David Platt
#10. If there is any form of prejudice, racism, sexism, economic/political divide etc. involved in trade, it is usually administered in the ability to trade.
Dew Platt
#11. What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.
Marc E. Platt
#12. Dreams may be conceived as the ovulation of fate when they hold the possibility of becoming more than a concept or idea.
Dew Platt
#13. Plainly put, a relationship with jesus requires total, superior, and exclusive devotion.
David Platt
#14. You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.
Oliver Platt
#15. Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against.
David Platt
#16. The Life of Christ determines everything about us.
David Platt
#17. We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves.
David Platt
#18. The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'
David Platt
#19. While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
David Platt
#20. Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means
Dew Platt
#21. God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.
David Platt
#22. The neglect of a generation is regeneration so every soul may become its own history, not the incessant anxiety of unnaturally imposed lessons, a plague of its own making.
Dew Platt
#23. The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
David Platt
#24. Love needs no reason material, external. But love lives strongly within reason, internal.
Dew Platt
#25. It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.
David Platt
#26. You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
Oliver Platt
#27. Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.
David Platt
#28. We don't go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.
David Platt
#29. The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
Oliver Platt
#30. 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
#31. David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.
(on David Johnson)
David Platt
#32. No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.
David Platt
#33. You may move eloquently, so you think, to the rhythm of some fated dance for some projected eternity, but if that fate is neither yours nor the work of your own hands, a rag doll knows more grace.
Dew Platt
#34. God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.
David Platt
#35. The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
David Platt
#36. When Jesus comes to the earth in the New Testament, we are quickly introduced to him as an immigrant. Fleeing a brutal political situation in Bethlehem after he is born, Jesus' family travels to Egypt, where they live for years as sojourners in a foreign land.
David Platt
#37. 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
#38. It meant a lot of driving through nothingness, and sometimes all that prickled the radio dial were low-wattage religious broadcasts: preachers who thought the aliens were Jesus coming home, or that they carried the wrath of God in their round ships' bellies.
Sean Platt
#39. [ ... ]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.
David Platt
#40. Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.
David Platt
#41. Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well
David Platt
#42. How have those in power led armies to kill people they don't know for centuries, always at the risk of their lives? By telling them God wants them to do it. By telling them that the country is depending on them.
Sean Platt
#43. The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
Charles Platt
#44. In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
David Platt
#45. We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.
John R. Platt
#46. And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
David Platt
#47. No risk is too great if the potential reward is revenge.
Paul Platt
#48. The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.
Lewis E. Platt
#49. Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?
David Platt
#51. We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.
David Platt
#52. Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
David Platt
#53. The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response. In the process of hearing Jesus, you are compelled to take an honest look at your life, your family, and your church and not just ask, 'What is he saying?' but also ask, 'What shall I do?'
David Platt
#54. We are, by nature, receivers. Even if we have a desire to learn God's Word, we still listen from a default self-centered mind-set that is always asking, What can I get out of this?
David Platt
#56. To swallow a bitter pill, a child is made to play hopscotch for a horehound, Dr. Praxton had said.
Dew Platt
#57. Pray not while you can work. Hope is the least of what life can afford you, never the best. Hope is a plague, never a blessing, especially when the answer is sought not from us but from others. It is unqualified burden to expect something from nothing.
Dew Platt
#58. Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.
David Platt
#59. As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.
David Platt
#60. When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.
David Platt
#61. Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.
David Platt
#62. Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.
David Platt
#63. God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.
David Platt
#64. When Jesus looked at the harassed and helpless multitudes, apparently his concern was not that the lost would not come to the Father. Instead his concern was that his followers would not go to the lost.
David Platt
#65. I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.
David Platt
#66. the founders concluded, if God himself does not violate the religious freedom of man, then surely government shouldn't either.
David Platt
#67. We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
David Platt
#68. No teachers (including Jesus) in the New Testament ever promise material wealth as a reward for obedience.
David Platt
#69. God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
David Platt
#70. We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.
David Platt
#71. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him? Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
David Platt
#72. Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.
David Platt
#73. The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough.
David Platt
#74. What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?
David Platt
#75. If everyone's hope were to be realizable with precedence, the law which enables individuality and reasonability will become senseless
Dew Platt
#76. You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean ... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
Oliver Platt
#77. While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is the power of the Primal Cause to decipher what is perceived from the ordered plane and conceive judgments through thoughts from the unordered.
Dew Platt
#78. We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.
David Platt
#79. The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world
David Platt
#80. BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD,
SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.
David Platt
#81. God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.
David Platt
#82. Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.
David Platt
#83. God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose
David Platt
#84. The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.
David Platt
#85. 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. Follow Me, pg. 11
David Platt
#86. Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.
David Platt
#87. 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
Oliver Platt
#88. Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.
David Platt
#89. Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?
David Platt
#90. ... Can there be a positive postulate of a communal estate ... ? It is the perpetual whole that is always merely fractional and antithetic to it-self.
Dew Platt
#91. There is great knowledge in separation.
Dew Platt
#92. The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".
David Platt
#93. Money lost to piracy is almost a sensible marketing expense. The more people who are talking, the more people who will hear. Some may become buyers.
Sean Platt
#94. It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
John R. Platt
#95. 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.
David Platt
#96. The primary reward of the gospel - God himself
David Platt
#97. He's your son. Hear him out before you encourage the ugly gossip.
Meara Platt
#98. I can almost picture the disciples faces. No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!
David Platt
#99. Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.
David Platt
#100. The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.
Anthony M. Platt
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