Quotes from Mark Batterson

I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.

When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.

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

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

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

The Bible is the place where God bears His soul.