522 Quotes by Mark Batterson

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.

I believe that God never overpromises or underdelivers. He always delivers on His promises, but He does it on His timeline!

What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

His willingness to look foolish resulted in epic miracles.

We need to work like it depends on us, but we also need to pray like it depends on God. That's what consecration is all about. It's letting God do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. And that's how God gets all the glory.Consecration is a complete surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ. We relinquish everything to God - our time, talent, and treasure. It's a complete divestiture. But the exchange rate is unbelievable.

The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world.The first person says, What's yours is mine.The second person says, What's yours is yours.The third person says, What's mine is mine.And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours.Which one are you?