Mark Batterson Quotes

Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.

There is nothing God loves more that keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams.

...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling.But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.

Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

...if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Following Jesus is a verb.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great but because nothing is too small for Him either.

When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

...success is when those who know you best respect you most.

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep...By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

...your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.