522 Quotes by Mark Batterson

True spirituality is “the place where desperation meets Jesus.

When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We’ve got to step up and step in. We’ve got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.

When everything is said and done, God isn’t going to say, “Well said,” “Well thought,” or “Well planned.” There is one measuring stick: “Well done, good and faithful servant!”5.

There is an old adage: ready, set, go. And I know it’s predicated on the importance of preparation. But I think it’s backward. You’ll never be ready. You’ll never be set. Sometimes you just need to go for it. The sequence of faith is this: Go. Set. Ready.

If we don’t control our calendar, our calendar will end up controlling us.

The church was never meant to be a noun. And when it turns into a noun, it becomes a turn-off. The church was meant to be a verb, an action verb.

I’m not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don’t really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.

In every dream journey there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. You have to go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

We all want to spend eternity with God. We just don’t want to spend time with Him.