Quotes from Mark Batterson

coined and collected over the years. Faith is climbing out on a limb, cutting it off, and watching the tree fall down. If doubt is putting your circumstances between you and God, faith is putting God between you and your circumstances. Faith is unlearning your fears until all that's left is the fear of God. Faith is the willingness to look foolish. And I've already mentioned it, but it's worth repeating: faith is taking the first step before God reveals the second step.

Preaching may move the hearts of men, but praying moves the heart of God. And that's where revival comes from.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. PROVERBS 16:9

Sometimes God gets in the way to show us the way.

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

We usually hear what we want to hear and turn a deaf ear to everything else. But remember the package deal? If we don't listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won't hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least. But this I know for sure: His tone of voice is always loving. Sometimes it's tough love in the form of rebuke or discipline, but it's loving, nonetheless.

It's not enough to exercise spiritual gifts; one must exercise them with a measure of emotional intelligence, or they can actually do more emotional harm than good.

we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year.

In his brilliant book The Road to Character, David Brooks makes a distinction between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. Résumé virtues are the skills you need to make a living, and those are often the most celebrated virtues in our culture. But when it comes to making a life, eulogy virtues win the day. These are the virtues that get talked about at your funeral.

Orar con persistencia es pedirle a Dios que nos haga la vida más difícil. Mientras mayor es tu persistencia al orar, más tendrás que trabajar. Y eso es una bendición de Dios.

Philippians 4:6 – 7: Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. I

La razón por la que Dios no responde a nuestras oraciones, no es que no estemos orando con suficiente fervor; en la mayoría de los casos, la razón es que no estamos dispuestos a hacer todo el trabajo que sea necesario.

His willingness to look foolish resulted in epic miracles.

All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance.

La mayor tragedia de la vida son las oraciones que no reciben respuesta porque nunca se llegaron a hacer.

If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. If you're looking for an opportunity, you'll always find one.

You can take Psalm 84:11 to the bank: No good thing does God withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Orar con persistencia es algo largo y aburrido, pero es el precio que se paga por los milagros.

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.

Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: "love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person's need.

Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you.

He allows our small plans to fail so that His big dream for us can prevail. So keep planning like it depends on you, but make sure you pray like it depends on God. Prayer is the alpha and omega of planning. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

Once you embrace the omnipotence of God, you'll draw ever-enlarging circles around your God-given, God-sized dreams.