Mark Batterson Quotes - Page 2

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

The more you’re willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in you and through you.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

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 the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.

You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.

When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.

I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.

I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.

If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.