Top 100 Mark Batterson Quotes
#1. We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that - and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission - what you would have, could have, and should have done - that break the heart of your heavenly Father.
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#3. Albert Einstein said it best: Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.
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#4. Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.
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#5. When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.
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#6. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
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#8. They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.
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#9. God won't answer 100 percent of the prayers we don't pray.
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#10. It's much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!
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#11. God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
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#12. You cannot be the hands and feet of Jesus if you're sitting on your butt.
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#13. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for
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#14. If faith is being sure of what we hope for, then being unsure of what we hope for is the antithesis of faith, isn't it?
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#15. Your prayers are prophecies. You can write the future of your family with your prayers
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#16. God is setting you up! He is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. And His angels are our advance team! Each trip around the sun has been carefully choreographed for us by the Creator of the universe. We just need to take His cues.
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#17. One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.
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#18. CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we'd never want to go through again, but wouldn't trade for anything in the world.
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#19. Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you." But there are others, such as, "Criticize by creating," "Thou shalt offend Pharisees," and "Catch people doing something right.
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#20. Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary.
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#21. ...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...
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#22. They force me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.
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#23. Love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.
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#24. If you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.
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#25. Is there a limit to my power? The obvious answer to that question is no. God is omnipotent, which means by definition, there is nothing God cannot do. Yet many of us pray as if our problems are bigger than God.
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#26. Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were
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#27. If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.
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#28. Your life is your sermon ... Are you a good translation?
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#29. We don't get a vision from God by going to conferences. We might get some good ideas, but God-ideas are only revealed in the presence of God.
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#30. Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.
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#31. God doesn't always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it's obedience that glorifies God.
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#32. God is infinitely bigger than your biggest problem or biggest dream. And while we're on the topic, His grace is infinitely bigger than your biggest sin.
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#33. The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us.
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#34. Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.
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#35. We should live with a holy anticipation of what's around the corner.
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#36. How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.
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#37. You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.
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#38. Too often we pray ASAP prayers - as soon as possible. We need to start praying ALAT prayers - as long as it takes.
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#39. If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.
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#40. Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of His grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. Every day should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. - JERRY BRIDGES
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#41. Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life. It has the potential to change a person's plotline for eternity. The right word at the right time can be the catalyst for someone else's miracle.
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#42. May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
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#43. All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance.
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#44. Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
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#45. There is a pattern repeated in Scripture: crazy miracles are the offspring of crazy faith. Normal begets normal. Crazy begets crazy. If we want to see God do crazy miracles, sometimes we need to pray crazy prayers.
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#46. ...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.
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#47. Even if the people could no longer hear God, he believed that God could still hear them.
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#48. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.
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#49. 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.
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#50. God wants to do so much more than simply forgive your sin. He wants to leverage your past regrets for His eternal purpose.
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#51. A. W. Tozer once said, "Eternity won't be long enough to discover all that God is or praise him for all that he's done."6
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#52. The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.
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#53. The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.
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#57. If you don't have a personal definition of success, chances are you will succeed at the wrong thing. You'll get to the end of your life and realize that you spelled success wrong. And if you spell it wrong, you'll get it wrong.
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#58. Few promises are more circled in my Bible than Proverbs 16:9: In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.
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#59. Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.
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#60. When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next.
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#61. You're never too old to go after the dreams God has put in your heart. And for the record, you're never too young either. Age is never a valid excuse.
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#62. If the kingdom of God had departments, we'd want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn't hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let's not wait for people to come to us, let's go to them.
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#63. 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.
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#64. I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.
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#65. Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.
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#66. As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants - from this time on and forever," says the LORD.
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#67. You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.
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#69. To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
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#71. God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.
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#72. All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn't our job; it is God's job.
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#73. ...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...
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#74. If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.
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#75. You don't need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.
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#76. Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God.
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#77. I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in providence.
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#78. There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence.
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#79. Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.
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#80. Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.
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#81. You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.
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#82. Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.
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#83. The gospel costs nothing but it demands everything.
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#84. Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I've discovered that if I don't take the first step, God generally won't reveal the next step.
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#88. Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.
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#89. New Testament scholar Dr. Gordon Fee said that life is a wilderness, and a compass doesn't help very much. A map certainly doesn't help because you have to know where you are for starters. What you need in a place you've never been before is a guide. Jesus becomes the Guide to the Father's house.
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#90. When we lose our sense of wonder, what we really lose is our soul. Our lack of wonder is really a lack of love.
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#91. Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective.
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#92. If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.
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#93. One step of obedience can open your eyes. One step of obedience can reverse the curse. One step of obedience can begin a new chapter in your life!
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#94. It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.
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#95. Disappointment is like dream defibrillation. If we respond to it the right way, disappointment can actually restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.
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#96. One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.
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#97. I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.
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#98. When we go adventuring with Jesus, He takes us places we never dreamed we could go, gives us ideas we never thought we could have, and gives us friends that last forever.
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#99. The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.
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#100. The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
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