Mark Batterson Quotes

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word opportunity. It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

~ Mark Batterson

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

~ Mark Batterson

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

~ Mark Batterson

Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.

~ Mark Batterson

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

~ Mark Batterson

...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep...By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

~ Mark Batterson

Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.

~ Mark Batterson

...there is nothing you possess that wasn't given to you by God. It's His prerogative to give. And it's His prerogative to take away. But there is one thing that can never be taken from you, and that is Jesus Christ. And if you have Jesus, then you have everything you will ever need for all of eternity.Everything - Jesus = NothingJesus + Nothing = EverythingIt's that simple.

~ Mark Batterson

Jesus proclaimed the favor of God in His very first sermon. Then He sealed the deal with His death and resurrection. Favor is a function of surrender. If we don't hold out on God, God will not hold out on us.

~ Mark Batterson

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

~ Mark Batterson

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

~ Mark Batterson

What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

~ Mark Batterson

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

~ Mark Batterson

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

~ Mark Batterson

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

~ Mark Batterson

That is the heavenly Father's deepest impulse toward us. You are the apple of His eye. And anyone who messes with you messes with Him. His protective instincts are most poignantly seen at the cross - the place where unconditional love and omnipotent power for the amalgam called amazing grace. That's where the Creator stepped between every fallen sinner and the fallen angel, Satan. That's where the Advocate took His stand against the Accuser of the brethren. The Sinless Son of God took the fall for us.The cross is God's way of saying, You are worth dying for.

~ Mark Batterson

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

~ 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

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

~ Mark Batterson

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

~ Mark Batterson

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical

~ Mark Batterson

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

~ Mark Batterson

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.

~ Mark Batterson

The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.

~ Mark Batterson

...if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!

~ Mark Batterson

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

~ Mark Batterson

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

~ Mark Batterson

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

~ Mark Batterson

I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.

~ Mark Batterson

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

~ Mark Batterson