A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Orphans and Widows Quotes

“Growth in the Christian life often begins with obedience even when acute desire is not present. However, over the course of obedience, followers of Christ learn to trust that his ways are indeed good.”
― David Platt, A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Orphans and Widows

“We need a young generation and others who will be willing to stand in loving confrontation, but real confrontation, in contrast to the mentality of constant accommodation with the current forms of the world spirit as they surround us today..”
― David Platt, A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Orphans and Widows

“..whatever seems right to me or feels right to me is right for me..it's ultimately about me..The essence of what the Bible calls sin is the exaltation of self. God has designed us to put him first in our lives, others next, and ourselves last. Yet sin reverses that order..We turn from worshipping God to worshipping self.”
― David Platt, A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Orphans and Widows