Quotes from Mark Batterson

Has God ever called you to throw something down? Something in which you find your security or put your identity? It's awfully hard to let go, isn't it? It feels like you are jeopardizing your future. And it feels like you could lose what is most important to you. But that is when you discover who you really are.

The defining moments will double as the scariest decisions.

Soñar es una forma de orar, y orar es una forma de soñar. Mientras más ores, más grandes se volverán tus sueños. Y mientras más grandes se vuelvan tus sueños, más tendrás que orar. En ese proceso de trazar unos círculos de oración cada vez mayores, se amplía la esfera de la gloria de Dios.

La fecha de nuestra muerte no es la fecha que escriben en la lápida de nuestro sepulcro. El día en que dejemos de soñar, es el día en que comenzaremos a morir. Cuando sacrificamos la imaginación en el altar de la lógica, le robamos a Dios la gloria que le pertenece a él con todo derecho.

If you take thirty linear steps, you're ninety feet from where you started. But if you take thirty exponential steps, you've circled the earth twenty-six times!2 Faith isn't linear. Faith is exponential.

During the funeral, I realized that I couldn't stop sighing. I later read that sighing is one way we process grief. It is a physiological response to distress.

dream big, pray hard, and think long.

Here's the point: God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. But those God-given opportunities often come disguised as man-eating lions. And how we react when we encounter those lions will determine our destiny. We can cower in fear and run away from our greatest challenges. Or we can chase our God-ordained destiny by seizing the God-ordained opportunity.

We can't just know what we believe; we need to know why we believe what we believe.

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

An untamed tongue is far more dangerous than an untrained sword.