Quotes from Mark Driscoll
Sometimes we're so focused on our desired blessings that we fail to stop and thank God by remembering the blessings we already have in Christ.
- Mark Driscoll
Most Christians are sheltered within their own groups and are too busy arguing with other Christians to notice the sad state of Christianity in a broader sense.
- Mark Driscoll
The sad truth is that we live in a world that encourages selfishness, independence, convenience, isolation, and using people rather than loving them.
- Mark Driscoll
Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.
- Mark Driscoll
Forgiveness is not reconciliation. It takes one sinner to repent, and one victim to forgive, but it takes both to reconcile. Therefore, unless there is both repentance by the sinner and forgiveness by the victim, reconciliation cannot occur
- Mark Driscoll
Like a tree, the Bible tells us, bitterness has roots.a Consequently, we can saw away at our frustrations, disappointments, angers, hurts, and sadness, but unless we dig up our root of bitterness, it only returns, sometimes bigger than ever.
- Mark Driscoll
In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations
- Mark Driscoll
We believe that the local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord, and that the universal church is all of God's people in all times and places.
- Mark Driscoll
entire churches can be consumed with the demonic drama that proceeds from one tongue speaking on behalf of a bitter heart.
- Mark Driscoll
What happens if you walk into a church and try to find out what a man looks like?
- Mark Driscoll
The truth is, righteous anger is the right response to sin and far more consistent with God's character than faking happiness, approval, or acceptance.
- Mark Driscoll
The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house.
- Mark Driscoll