Mark Batterson Quotes
- You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
- Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start…
- Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring…
- As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted…
- You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.
- I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They…
- The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So…
- Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.
- God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
- Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.
- Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
- Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical
- God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
- We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.
- Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell.…
- Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
- You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours.
- Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?
- May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
- When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?