Top 100 Batterson Quotes
#1. Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.
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#2. As a child of God, you aren't just a manifestation of your biological family. You are a manifestation of your spiritual family - your true family of origin. If you let Him, the Spirit of God will manifest the Father and the Son through you.
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#3. We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice ... living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Are your problems bigger than God, or is God bigger than your problems? Our
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#6. 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.
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#7. Now here is what you need to understand: If you don't turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.
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#8. One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
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#9. When you see life as an adventure, your hopes and dreams are never more than a day away!
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#10. Resurrection is the central tenet of the Christian faith. And it isn't something we just celebrate on Easter. Resurrection is something we celebrate every day in every way.
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#11. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
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#14. 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!
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#15. Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense.
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#16. 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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#17. But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?
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#19. We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask. During
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#20. ...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.
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#22. One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.
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#23. You cannot be the hands and feet of Jesus if you're sitting on your butt.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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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#26. Life becomes an adventure when we start seeing the miraculous in the mundane. When we put feet to our passion or bear-hug a new challenge, it changes our outlook on life.
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#27. Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!
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#28. They force me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.
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#29. In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
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#30. ...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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#31. 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.
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#32. Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how
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#36. The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
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#37. I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.
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#38. 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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#40. One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.
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#41. 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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#42. Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
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#43. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.4
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#44. 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.
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#45. We are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.
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#46. Prayer and imagination are directly proportional: the more you pray the bigger your imagination becomes because the Holy Spirit supersizes it with God-sized dreams.
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#47. Your prayers are prophecies. You can write the future of your family with your prayers
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#48. 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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#49. Nothing belongs to us, not even ourselves. But the exchange rate is unbelievable. All of our sin is transferred to Christ's account, and all of His righteousness is transferred to our account. God cancels our debt, writes us into His will, and calls it even!
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#51. Albert Einstein said it best: Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.
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#52. Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.
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#54. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. Let me just say it like it is: If you don't have any problems, you don't have any potential. Here's why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you've been wounded.
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#55. God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.
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#56. I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.
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#58. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
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#59. Sometimes the purpose of prayer is to get us out of circumstances, but more often than not, the purpose of prayer is to get us through them.
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#60. But God doesn't call the qualified; God qualifies the called.
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#61. Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.
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#62. When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.
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#63. 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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#64. Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads.
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#65. Going all in is following in the footsteps of Jesus wherever they may lead us,
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#66. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less.
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#68. Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
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#69. 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.
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#70. God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory.
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#71. 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.
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#72. The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.
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#73. When we take matters into our own hands, we take God out of the equation.
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#74. 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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#75. If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.
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#76. What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?
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#77. Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.
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#78. Grace is the catalyst that turns guilt into gratitude. One act of grace can turn the worst moment into the defining moment of someone's life. You can be that agent of grace.
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#79. I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.
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#80. 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.
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#81. We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.
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#82. But Paul knew that his sin was nailed to the cross, and the hammer of God's mercy has no claw.
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#83. Some things cannot be perceived with the five senses; they can only be conceived by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be deduced via deductive reasoning; they can only be imagined by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be learned by logic; they can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit.
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#84. I'm giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on - just as I promised Moses.
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#85. It's much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!
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#86. We will face some problems we cannot solve, some situations we cannot change. That's when we may feel like panicking, but it is the time to stand still and wait for the Lord's deliverance.
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#87. Before you step into what if, you have to get past if only.
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#88. Only God can make the appointment, but only you can keep the appointment.
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#89. Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.
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#90. When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When we try to make things easier, we usually make them harder. Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused.
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#91. But God always has a holy surprise up His sovereign sleeve. And when we pray, God throws surprise parties!
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#92. I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.
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#93. God won't answer 100 percent of the prayers we don't pray.
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#94. Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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#95. Jesus proclaimed the favor of God in His very first sermon. Then He sealed the deal with His death and resurrection. Favor is a function of surrender. If we don't hold out on God, God will not hold out on us.
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#96. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.
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#97. Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn't give you what you asked for?
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#98. They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.
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#99. 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.
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#100. If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.
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