Quotes from Mark Batterson

If you let your circumstances define the way you see God, you are a prisoner of perspective. Or worse, a prisoner of your past mistakes! But if you let God define the way you see your circumstances, you are a prisoner of hope.

Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.

It's trusting God's heart even when we can't see His hand. It's understanding that sometimes the obstacle is the way!

As the interview ended, I asked him one last question: "If you had one thing to say about God and man, what would you say?" He paused, switched to English, and said, "Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.

If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

I'm willing to die on, but there are some I'm not willing to die on. I won't engage in the combat of criticism. It is sideways energy, and it doesn't have a redemptive purpose. I overlook the offense so I can keep playing offense.

Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.

Preaching may move the hearts of men, but praying moves the heart of God. And that's where revival comes from.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

Sometimes God gets in the way to show us the way.

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked.

We usually hear what we want to hear and turn a deaf ear to everything else. But remember the package deal? If we don't listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won't hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least. But this I know for sure: His tone of voice is always loving. Sometimes it's tough love in the form of rebuke or discipline, but it's loving, nonetheless.