Quotes from Mark Batterson

It's not enough to exercise spiritual gifts; one must exercise them with a measure of emotional intelligence, or they can actually do more emotional harm than good.

In his brilliant book The Road to Character, David Brooks makes a distinction between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. Résumé virtues are the skills you need to make a living, and those are often the most celebrated virtues in our culture. But when it comes to making a life, eulogy virtues win the day. These are the virtues that get talked about at your funeral.

His willingness to look foolish resulted in epic miracles.

All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance.

If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. If you're looking for an opportunity, you'll always find one.

You can take Psalm 84:11 to the bank: No good thing does God withhold from those who walk uprightly.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: "love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person's need.

Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you.

He allows our small plans to fail so that His big dream for us can prevail. So keep planning like it depends on you, but make sure you pray like it depends on God. Prayer is the alpha and omega of planning. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

Once you embrace the omnipotence of God, you'll draw ever-enlarging circles around your God-given, God-sized dreams.

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.