Mark Batterson Quotes

The Bible is the place where God bears His soul.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.

Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.

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.

You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

The gospel costs nothing but it demands everything.

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

CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

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

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

We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

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

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.

Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads.

Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.

If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.

The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.

If you want to see God move make a move.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.

I want to be famous in my home.

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

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

Id rather be biblically correct than politically correct.

The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.