522 Quotes by Mark Batterson

When we are born into this world, the world revolves around us. We’re spoon-fed on the front end and diaper-changed on the back end. It’s as if the entire world exists to meet our every need. And that’s fine if you are a two-month-old baby. If you’re twenty-two, it’s a problem! Newsflash:.

When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God’s good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it’s His reputation that is at stake. If we don’t give the Enemy a foothold, God won’t let him touch a hair on our head.

We usually focus on what we’re doing or where we’re going, but God’s primary concern is who we’re becoming in the process.

The hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers. If you don’t guard your heart, unresolved anger toward God can undermine faith.

Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn’t know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren’t emailing each other.

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.

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.

We need to study the Word of God diligently. But we don’t need to know more. We need to do more with what we know. At the end of the day, God will not say, “Well thought, Intellectual,” or “Well said, Orator.” There is only one commendation: “Well done, good and faithful servant!