Mark Batterson Quotes

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You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

Mark Batterson
The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God's grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man's-land. We're too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We've got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

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It's much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!

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And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.

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Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

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Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

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We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.

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You don't need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.

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The more you're willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you're willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can't do in you and through you.

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God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

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Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

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God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

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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.

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God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

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Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.

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What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

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May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

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You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.

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Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn't give you what you asked for?

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You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.

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God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here's the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

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Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.

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Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

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The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.

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Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

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