Top 182 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Batterson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American priest Mark Batterson.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.
When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.
New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.
In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.
I'd rather be biblically correct than politically correct.
What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.
If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.
Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.
Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
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.
I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.
Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.
In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.
I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.
I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.
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!
It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.
Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.
To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
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.
Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.
When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.
Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.
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.
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.
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.
God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.
Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
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.
We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for
And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
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.
You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
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.
God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.
You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.
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.
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.
If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.
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.
One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.
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!
The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.
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.
God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
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
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.
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