Bickle Quotes

#1. I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

Damien Chazelle

#2. The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.

Roger Ross Williams

#3. On the other hand, Jesus rebuked those who could not receive because of their lack of faith in Him.

Mike Bickle

#4. The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life.

Mike Bickle

#5. A true biblical eschatology prepares overcomers for the difficulties they must endure and helps them to stand with confidence that the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit is surely coming.

Mike Bickle

#6. With the same intensity that the Father loves Jesus, He loves you.

Mike Bickle

#7. People scared Petra - they were volatile, unpredictable. But the natural world could always be explained. It behaved according to established laws that didn't change. Petra could play by those rules.

Laura Bickle

#8. Joyful intimacy with God is the great power source of the kingdom of God.

Mike Bickle

#9. Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.

Mike Bickle

#10. There's no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer

Mike Bickle

#11. God smiles on those who quietly do his dirty work, my girl.

Laura Bickle

#12. Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.

Mike Bickle

#13. If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.

Mike Bickle

#14. Our work for God is to flow from loving God; thus, we work with Him instead of for Him.

Mike Bickle

#15. God has a part,and we have a part. God will not do our part and we can't do His part

Mike Bickle

#16. The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

Mike Bickle

#17. I was afraid to be Outside alone, without Elijah. But, no matter what, I would have to get used to his absence. I would have to prove to him and to myself that I could.

Laura Bickle

#18. Demons don't move because we complain. They move because we speak the name of Jesus.

Mike Bickle

#19. We must know the power of truth and experience the truth about power.

Mike Bickle

#20. We will never be completely satisfied by our achievements, skills, wealth, fame, pleasures, or possessions. Why? Because the human heart was created to need more than what is available to us in the natural realm. Only the eternal, supernatural God can fill our longings.

Mike Bickle

#21. In some seasons, Jesus asks us, Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

Mike Bickle

#22. Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.

Mike Bickle

#23. Jesus called us to abide in Him. The foundation of this reality means to talk with Him.

Mike Bickle

#24. People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.

Mike Bickle

#25. We love God with our mind by taking the time to fill our mind with the Word.

Mike Bickle

#26. I think I'd rather be branded than submit to some of the things that you have to." He said this without spite, just a soft statement of fact. "I'm not strong enough to do that.

Laura Bickle

#27. What did you come for?" he murmured.
"For you.

Laura Bickle

#28. Jesus wants us to love Him in a way that gives Him full leadership over our lives.

Mike Bickle

#29. If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

Mike Bickle

#30. Don't evaluate yourself, don't evaluate others. Just keep going after it.

Mike Bickle

#31. I could barely breathe as I fled down the steps, like something was stuck in my throat. I couldn't tell what flavor it was; it tasted salty like tears, but it was sharp as broken glass.

Laura Bickle

#32. One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities

Mike Bickle

#33. I was a hypocrite. When the roof came down, it was going to fall on me first.

Laura Bickle

#34. God wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be.

Mike Bickle

#35. For me, that was love. Tangible. Love was what was in front of me, not a distant fantasy.

Laura Bickle

#36. His eyes widened. "You didn't go back to town, did you?"
"No. I went to church."
"Ah, well. That explains it," he blurted. "I mean ... well ... Two hours of sermons is enough to dim anyone's sparkle.

Laura Bickle

#37. It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it.

Mike Bickle

#38. Maybe now that Elijah was feeling well enough to be interfering in my business, he'd also be well enough to look after his own chores.

Laura Bickle

#39. Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Mike Bickle

#40. The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.

Mike Bickle

#41. I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.

Mike Bickle

#42. Find your security, success, and peace in God. Then, and only then, can it never be taken from you.

Mike Bickle

#43. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 - JOHN CALVIN

Mike Bickle

#44. There is only one way to a man's heart. Through gentleness. Not by getting angry or jealous.

Laura Bickle

#45. The reason people burn out is not because people are going hard [after God]; it's because they are working and perusing with the wrong spirit-trying to do it in the eyes of men with the wrong reasons; trying to get into a room you are already in.

Mike Bickle

#46. When we meet the great men and women of the Bible face-to-face, we may be surprised to discover just how much like us they are. It is faith in a great God that makes a great man or woman of God.

Mike Bickle

#47. Passion is not about energy and volume; it is about being engaged from the heart

Mike Bickle

#48. Men are essentially useless for the difficult things in life. For births and deaths, one clearheaded woman is more useful than a half-dozen men.

Laura Bickle

#49. Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.

Mike Bickle

#50. I wanted the syrupy taste of this small rebellion. And this stupid machine was denying that bit of freedom to me ... just like everyone else.

Laura Bickle

#51. There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both.

Laura Bickle

#52. Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

Mike Bickle

#53. The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.

Mike Bickle

#54. People will not remember what you say. People will not remember what you do. They will always remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou...

Mollie Bickle Cardwell

#55. We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

Mike Bickle

#56. The Second Coming will probably happen within the lifetime of people living today.

Mike Bickle

#57. No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.

Mike Bickle

#58. If the eternal King started in Bethlehem, so will anyone who follows Him.

Mike Bickle

#59. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.

Mike Bickle

#60. I began to murmur the Lord's Prayer in thanks.
"Shit," Mrs. Parsall said.

Laura Bickle

#61. The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

Mike Bickle

#62. Jesus does not want us to walk in a false humility that minimizes how much He enjoys loving us or how much He wants us to enjoy being loved by Him.

Mike Bickle

#63. Understanding God's great love for undeserving people such as us, gives us insight into His great majesty. As beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so great love reveals the nature of the One who loves deeply.

Mike Bickle

#64. He has joy in our friendship and in our partnering together in the work of the kingdom with Him.

Mike Bickle

#65. I ran my fingers over the black ink. "They're holy to you."
Alex flexed his fingers. "They are now.

Laura Bickle

#66. Any who love Jesus will love others much more.

Mike Bickle

#67. Shoulders slumped in defeat, I turned to walk away. The drugstore had caved under the force of my criminal will, but the Coke machine was virtuous. Inviolate.

Laura Bickle

#68. Radical isn't about how high you jump in a worship service, its about how you walk when you come down.

Mike Bickle

#69. I don't want to be the biggest or the best, I want to be faithful.

Mike Bickle

#70. God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.

Mike Bickle

#71. Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

Mike Bickle

#72. It won't matter who my friends were; it won't matter my endorsements; what matters is my heart's response to him.

Mike Bickle

#73. Our living condition is how much we actually experience of that which is freely available.

Mike Bickle

#74. I slipped outside ... and into the realm of the ravens.

Laura Bickle

#75. Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

Mike Bickle

#76. I wasn't threatened by fantasy.

Laura Bickle

#77. God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.

Mike Bickle

#78. The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.

Mike Bickle

#79. God doesn't love you more when you obey, you experience Him more!

Mike Bickle

#80. This prayer for the Holy Spirit to strengthen the inner man of believers is one of the most important prayers recorded in the Scripture, and it is vital that we understand it if we want to grow in prayer.

Mike Bickle

#81. That night I lay in bed and stared out the window. Night and I were old friends.

Laura Bickle

#82. Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you.

Mike Bickle

#83. God cannot be with everyone. Not everyone is right.

Laura Bickle

#84. Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with

Mike Bickle

#85. We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.

Mike Bickle

#86. The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

Mike Bickle

#87. The men in black walked back across the field, back to their dry homes, like crows returning to the nest. I trailed behind them, a confused and drenched brown sparrow behind the flock.

Laura Bickle

#88. We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.

Mike Bickle

#89. You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire; your hunger is a gift from God to draw you to Him. It's a holy want with a holy fulfillment. Everything you really need and want is offered by and found in Him.

Mike Bickle