Mark Batterson - God Quotes

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The more problems you have, the more potential you have to help people. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. [...] If you don't have any problems, you don't have any potential. Here's why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you've been wounded.

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If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

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You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.

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

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

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads.

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