Quotes from Mark Batterson

And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory

If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice.

God can accomplish more in one day than you can accomplish in a lifetime.

Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Your prayers are prophecies. You can write the future of your family with your prayers

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

Our potential is directly proportional to our prayer life. It is the single greatest indicator of our success in any endeavor.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.

Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.

Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.