Quotes from Mark Batterson

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.2

Maybe we need to quit letting our circumstances get between us and God and let God get between us and our circumstances

Disappointment is like dream defibrillation. If we respond to it the right way, disappointment can actually restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.

mientras más fe tengas, menos supuestos te fabricarás. ¿Por qué? Porque para Dios todo es posible52.

hundred pounds." Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary. After

Spontaneity is an underappreciated dimension of spirituality. In fact, spiritual maturity has less to do with long-range visions than it does with moment-by-moment sensitivity to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. And it is our moment-by-moment sensitivity to the Holy Spirit that turns life into an everyday adventure.

Albert Einstein said it best: "Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.

Cuando hacemos lo correcto, sin importar las circunstancias o las consecuencias, estamos creando las condiciones para que Dios vuelque las mesas. Todo lo que necesitamos hacer es decidirnos y hacerlo.

We don't know what we want. We've never defined our goals or values or passions, so we're out of touch with our hearts' desires. And our growing responsibilities have numbed us to the possibilities around us and the passions within us.

Si buscas las respuestas, no las vas a hallar; pero si buscas a Dios, las respuestas te encontrarán a ti.

Miracles are the by-product of prayers that were prayed by you or for you. And that should be all the motivation you need to pray.

I love the way Dorothy Sayers described the wild side of His personality. To do them justice, the people who crucified Jesus did not do so because he was a bore. Quite the contrary; he was too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have declawed the lion of Judah and made Him a housecat for pale priests and pious old ladies.9

Finally, here's the great news: Prayer covers a multitude of sins. You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.

There is nothing God loves more than keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams. That is who He is. That is what He does. And the bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory.

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

A. W. Tozer once said, "Eternity won't be long enough to discover all that God is or praise him for all that he's done."6

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

I don't pretend to understand where the sovereignty of God and free will of humans meet, but it motivates me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

La oración y la imaginación son directamente proporcionales entre sí;

we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

Luke 2:52: May you grow in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut."100

If God is for us, it doesn't matter what comes against us. Without Him, we can do nothing. With Him, we can do all things.