522 Quotes by Mark Batterson

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.

Prayer creates divine opportunities. But prayer also sanctifies the reticular activating system and enables you to see the God-ordained opportunities that are all around you all the time.

The Aramaic word for prayer (slotha) means 'to set a trap.' Opportunities are like wild animals.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

There is nothing God loves more that keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams.

As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!

...success is when those who know you best respect you most.

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

Pain can be a professor theology.Pain can be a marriage counselor.Pain can be a life coach.Nothing gets our full attention like pain. It breaks down false idols and purifies false motives. It reveals where we need to heal, where we need to grow. It refocuses priorities like nothing else. And pain ins part and parcel of God’s sanctification process in our lives.