Quotes from Mark Batterson

We should live with a holy anticipation of what's around the corner.

The healthiest, holiest, and happiest people on the planet are those who laugh at themselves the most.

When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.

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

When you rise to the challenge of adventurous living, your days will be richer and your soul will be fuller. There will be more risks, more dares, and more obstacles. And in return, there will be more memories that started out as dreams. Adventure doesn't happen by accident. It has to be intentional.

If you don't have a dream, keep learning while you're waiting. Get into God's Word, and God's dream will get into you.

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.

Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.

It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.

We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.

Irrational fears only submit to prayer.

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.

God has determined that certain expressions of His power will only be exercised in response to prayer. Simply put, God won't do it unless you pray for it. We have not because we ask not, or maybe I should say, we have not because we circle not. The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked.

Few things leave as lasting an impression as hearing someone genuinely intercede for you.

there is nothing you possess that wasn't given to you by God. It's His prerogative to give. And it's His prerogative to take away. But there is one thing that can never be taken from you, and that is Jesus Christ. And if you have Jesus, then you have everything you will ever need for all of eternity. Everything - Jesus = Nothing Jesus + Nothing = Everything It's that simple.

We have a natural tendency to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. That's where mantras come in. They serve as

Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still.

Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.

If you go all in and all out for the cause of Christ, there will be setbacks along the way. But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection! And when you have a setback, you do not take a step back, because God is already preparing your comeback.

We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask. During

But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?

Every divine appointment is preceded by a season of preparation. And if we submit to the preparation, God will fulfill His promise. If we don't, He won't. Why? Because God never sets us up to fail.

Never underestimate the ripple effect of one act of obedience. It will never be all for nothing.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.