Quotes by Mark Batterson

“Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.”

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

“Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.”

“...people can go to church every week of their lives and never go all in with Jesus Christ. I'm afraid we've cheapened the gospel by allowing people to buy in without selling out. We've made it too...”

“...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.”

“...each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man...”

“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 Gods voice...living with more noise means...”

“Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, go...”

“As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do wh...”

“The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chanc...”

“Going all in and all out for the All in All is both a death sentence and a life sentence. Your sinful nature, along with its selfish desires, is nailed to the cross. Then, and only then, does your ...”

“In God's kingdom, calling trumps credentials every time! God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called. And the litmus test isn't experience or expertise. It's availability and teachabil...”

“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.”

“Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.”

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