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Quotes About Spirituality

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
~ Mark Batterson
if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.
~ Mark Batterson
We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.
~ Mark Batterson
Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.
~ Mark Batterson
True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.
~ Mark Batterson
Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
~ Mark Batterson
Jesus didn't die on the cross just to keep you safe. He died to make you dangerous--a threat to the enemy. He died so that you could make a difference for all eternity.
~ Mark Batterson
When we lose our sense of wonder, what we really lose is our soul. Our lack of wonder is really a lack of love.
~ Mark Batterson
Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.
~ Mark Batterson
The hands-down most important spiritual discipline is getting into God's Word on a daily basis. When you open the Bible, God opens His mouth.
~ Mark Batterson
The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers. God exists outside of the four space-time dimensions He created. We should pray that way! It
~ Mark Batterson
Did you know that embryologists have recently captured the moment of conception via fluorescence microscopy? What they discovered is that at the exact moment a sperm penetrates an egg, the egg releases billions of zinc atoms that emit light. Sparks fly, literally! That miracle of conception is a microcosm that mirrors God's first four words.
~ Mark Batterson
Man skills may win you man points, but manhood virtues win the heart of God. Virtue is much harder to develop than skill, and it takes much longer. But the payoff is far greater! Don't
~ Mark Batterson
We don't get a vision from God by going to conferences. We might get some good ideas, but God-ideas are only revealed in the presence of God.
~ Mark Batterson
Until you hear the voice of God, you won't be able to sing His song. Why? Because you're out of tune.
~ Mark Batterson
Do you find your identity in who you are or whose you are?
~ Mark Batterson
Søren Kierkegaard believed that boredom is the root of all evil. I second the notion. Boredom isn't just boring; boredom is wrong. You cannot simultaneously live by faith and be bored. Faith and boredom are antithetical.
~ Mark Batterson
If you don't have a dream, keep learning while you're waiting. Get into God's Word, and God's dream will get into you.
~ Mark Batterson
We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.
~ Mark Batterson
It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.
~ Mark Batterson
God has determined that certain expressions of His power will only be exercised in response to prayer. Simply put, God won't do it unless you pray for it. We have not because we ask not, or maybe I should say, we have not because we circle not. The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked.
~ Mark Batterson
But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?
~ Mark Batterson
Can our prayers change our circumstances? Absolutely! But when our circumstances don't change, it's often an indication that God is trying to change us.
~ Mark Batterson
You don't have to live in fear that God is going to take away what is most important to you. After all, Isaac was God's gift to Abraham. But if the gift ever becomes more important than the Gift Giver, then the very thing God gave you to serve His purposes is undermining His plan for your life. God is no longer the End All and Be All. And when God becomes the means to some other end, it's the beginning of the end spiritually because you have inverted the gospel.
~ Mark Batterson