Quotes from Mark Batterson

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes. Prayer gives us a God's-eye view. It heightens our awareness and gives us a sixth sense that enables us to perceive spiritual realities that are beyond our five senses.

But as long as Aaron and Hur lifted his arms, the army was victorious. All of us need Aarons and Hurs in our lives. We need people who are strong when we're weak. We need people who are full of faith when we're running on empty. We need people who will fight for us on their knees. We all need a prayer circle!

Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.

The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.

The Bible comes alive only when we actively obey it.

The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

A veces el poder de la oración es el mismo para seguir adelante. No siempre cambia las circunstancias, pero sí nos da la fortaleza que necesitamos para atravesarlas. Cuando oramos sin desmayar, Dios quita la carga de nuestros hombros para ponerla en los hombros de aquel que llevó la cruz hasta el Calvario. Despu

Después de orar como si todo dependiera de Dios, necesitamos trabajar como si dependiera de nosotros.

The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers.

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness...There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person. ...Our fundamental problem is that we are selfish. Marriage is the means whereby God eradicates our selfishness because it is not about "me" anymore, i t is about "we.

Is there a limit to my power?" The obvious answer to that question is no. God is omnipotent, which means by definition, there is nothing God cannot do. Yet many of us pray as if our problems are bigger than God.

I believe that God never overpromises or underdelivers. He always delivers on His promises, but He does it on His timeline!

éxito es el resultado del fracaso bien administrado.

At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.

success is when those who know you best respect you most.

Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective.

One of the most exhilarating things in the world is doing something that no one thinks you can do.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

When God puts a passion in your heart, whether it be relieving starvation in Africa or educating children in the inner city or making movies with redemptive messages, that God-ordained passion becomes your responsibility. And you have a choice to make. Are you going to be irresponsibly responsible or responsibly irresponsible?

uno solo es tan bueno como la gente con la que se rodea.

I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in providence.

Success is a derivative of persistence.