522 Quotes by Mark Batterson

As a child of God, you aren’t just a manifestation of your biological family. You are a manifestation of your spiritual family – your true family of origin. If you let Him, the Spirit of God will manifest the Father and the Son through you.

Please read prayerfully what I’m about to write. When God puts a passion in your heart, whether it be relieving starvation in Africa or educating children in the inner city or making movies with redemptive messages, that God-ordained passion becomes your responsibility. And you have a choice to make. Are you going to be irresponsibly responsible or responsibly irresponsible?

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don’t know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation?

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It’s the gift of inconvenience.

Prayer is the way we write the future.

Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense.

Without it, I’m coasting. With it, I’m gaining momentum.

Joy is not getting what you want. It’s fully appreciating what you have. And it starts with the basics, like water.