Mark Batterson Quotes

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. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radical. It’s normal. It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.

There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.

God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.

God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

In my experience, it’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.

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 it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.

The more problems you have, the more potential you have to help people. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. [...] If you don’t have any problems, you don’t have any potential. Here’s why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you’ve been wounded.

You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.