Mark Batterson famous quotes

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

#Answers

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.
-- Mark Batterson

#Want

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

#Spiritual #Prayer #Eye

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.
-- Mark Batterson

#Christian #Heart #Reactions

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

#Bored #Christ #Following

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

#Purpose #Quitting #Life Is

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

#Miracle #Situation

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Memories #Imagination

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

#Dream #Failing #Divine

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.
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Prayer #Insulting

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.
-- Mark Batterson

#Talking #Promise #Mountain

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

#Giving #God Bless You #Standards

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Answers #Degrees

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

#Hungry #Full Of Yourself

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.
-- Mark Batterson

#Wish #Bottles #Genies

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
-- Mark Batterson

#Christian #Perfect #Parent

Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Scripts #Our Prayers

Who you become is determined by how you pray
-- Mark Batterson

#Determined #Praying

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.
-- Mark Batterson

#Worry #Brain #Mind

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Illogical #Willing

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.
-- Mark Batterson

#Spiritual #Destiny #Emotional

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

#Have Faith

When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next.
-- Mark Batterson

#Missing #Next #Want

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.
-- Mark Batterson

#Kids

Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.
-- Mark Batterson

#Pride #Praise #Turns

You need to circle the goals God wants you to go after, the promises God wants you to claim, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. And once you spell Jericho, you need to circle it in prayer. Then you need to keep circling until the walls come tumbling down.
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Prayer #Wall

Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.
-- Mark Batterson

#Crazy #Passion #Matter

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

#Christian #Levels #Way

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.
-- Mark Batterson

#Roots #Limits #Plant

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

#Prayer #Differences #Best God

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
-- Mark Batterson

#Spiritual #Maturity #Tests

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

#Nowhere To Turn #Sometimes #Turns

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. 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- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Prayer #Sea

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.
-- Mark Batterson

#Media #People #Amplify

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 to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.
-- Mark Batterson

#Opportunity #Simple #Play

If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Enough #Bigs

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!
-- Mark Batterson

#Darkness #Needs #Alternatives

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.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Forever #Fruit

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
-- Mark Batterson

#Past #Opportunity #Building

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
-- Mark Batterson

#God Is Great #Bigs

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

#Decision #Defining #Different

I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Opportunity #Thinking

You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours.
-- Mark Batterson

#Risk #Reputation #Willing

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.
-- Mark Batterson

#Ideas #Thousand

You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Prayer #Miracle

Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.
-- Mark Batterson

#Praying #Holy

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Tragedy #Life Is

Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
-- Mark Batterson

#Spiritual #Prayer #Scripts

Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Honor #Way

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Inheritance #Legacy

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.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Perfect #Parent

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

#Opportunity #Needs

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying
-- Mark Batterson

#Way #Praying #Failing

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.
-- Mark Batterson

#Giving #Decision #Vision

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

#Opportunity #Perfect #Waiting

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.
-- Mark Batterson

#Looks #Foolish #Willingness

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

#Spiritual #Old Things #Fundamentals

The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Dying #Stop Dreaming

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

#Dying

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Children #Destiny

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.
-- Mark Batterson

#Reality #Add #Doe

Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?
-- Mark Batterson

#Pain #Adventure #Ignorance

It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.
-- Mark Batterson

#Prayer #Life Changing #Believe

Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!
-- Mark Batterson

#Years #Long #People

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
-- Mark Batterson

#Letting Go #Prayer #God Knows

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.
-- Mark Batterson

#Jesus

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.
-- Mark Batterson

#Church #Imagine #Members

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
-- Mark Batterson

#Past #Church #Urban

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.
-- Mark Batterson

#Believe #People #Want

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.
-- Mark Batterson

#Jesus #Culture #Hanging Out