522 Quotes by Mark Batterson

No matter how many wrong turns we’ve taken and no matter how many detours we’ve been down, it’s God’s grace that gets us back onto the parade route.

Now here is what you need to understand: If you don’t turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else’s gain.

All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn’t our job; it is God’s job.

Do you find your identity in who you are or whose you are?

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn’t revolve around us.

Most of us don’t get what we want because we don’t know what we want. Here’s our secondary problem: Most of us don’t get what we want because we quit circling.

If you aren’t hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That’s why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you’ll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!

We should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances.