Mark Batterson Quotes

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

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

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

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.

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

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

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.

Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

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.

If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.

All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.

Never underestimate the power of a single prayer.

Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation.

In my experience, it’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

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

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

God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.

The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.

Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!

Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

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

I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.

God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word 'remember' is repeated 250 times in Scripture.

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical