Quotes from Mark Batterson

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory

If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice.

God can accomplish more in one day than you can accomplish in a lifetime.

Vivir sin tropezar por causa de Jesús no es ninguna experiencia al estilo Zen. Es llevar una vida sometida a su soberanía, su misterio y su amor. Jesús nos promete que seremos bienaventurados si no hallamos tropiezo en él cuando hace cosas a favor de otras personas.

Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Your prayers are prophecies. You can write the future of your family with your prayers

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

Our potential is directly proportional to our prayer life. It is the single greatest indicator of our success in any endeavor.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.

Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.

cuando un sueño procede de Dios, tiene más de nueve vidas.

Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.

Una de las razones por las cuales mucha gente no siente intimidad con Dios, es que no tienen un ritmo diario con él; tienen un ritmo semanal. ¿Funcionaría algo así con tu cónyuge y tus hijos? Pues en la familia de Dios tampoco funciona. Necesitamos establecer un ritmo diario a fin de tener una relación diaria con Dios. La mejor manera de hacerlo es comenzando el día en oración.

The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.

your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?

Here is the mistake so many of us make: we start out pursuing a passion and end up settling for a paycheck. So instead of making a life, all we do is make a living. And our deep-seated passions get buried beneath our day-to-day responsibilities.

This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

the tiny mustard seed contains all the nutrients you need to survive. It's packed with vitamins B1, B6, C, E, and K. It's a source of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, and zinc. Faith is a lot like that. It doesn't look like much, but we never know what it can become. A little faith goes a long way; in fact, a little faith will last an eternity.

Según los cálculos más conservadores, en las Escrituras hay más de tres mil promesas. En virtud de lo que realizó Jesucristo en la cruz, todas y cada una de ellas te pertenecen. Todas ellas llevan escrito tu nombre. La pregunta ahora es esta: ¿Cuántas de ellas has rodeado con un círculo?

we should listen to most as we choose a vocation is the voice that we might think we should listen to least, and that is the voice of our own gladness. What can we do that makes us the gladdest?…I believe that if it is a thing that makes us truly glad, then it is a good thing and it is our thing."20 I might even add, it's a God thing. If there is a lesson to be learned from Eric

You don't have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. 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.

Our prayers don't die when we do. God answers them forever.

Yo no creo en las coincidencias; creo en la providencia.