Quotes by Mark Driscoll

“To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.”

“Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.”

“Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.”

“If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.”

“Since you act as though God is dead, I wanted to join you in the mourning."The reply of Martin Luther's wife, in full funeral regalia, in trying to illustrate the folly of his depressed state.”

“If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.”

“Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.”

“The key to understnading masculinity is Jesus Christ. Jesus was tough with religious blockheads, false teachers, the proud, and bullies. Jesus was tender with women, children, and those who were su...”

“if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.”

“The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?”

“An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself self-discipline, self-control.”

“Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.”

“Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be ver...”

“We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.”

“While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly an...”

“Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the...”

“An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.”

“It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.”

“You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're...”

“I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.”