Quotes from Mark Batterson

If you don't have a dream, get around people who do. You might just catch what they have.

Your dream is more than a dream. It's a calling. Sure, someone hired you and someone can fire you. But they didn't call you. God did. And if you forget that fact, you forget why you do what you do and Who you do it for.

But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.

if you keep sowing the right seeds, the harvest of blessing will come in God's time, in God's way!

God is big enough. He's big enough to speak through doors and dreams and people. He's close enough to speak through desires and promptings and pain.

The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they'd never done and go where they'd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.

God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence.

I'm giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on —just as I promised Moses.

Praise is a higher dimension of faith.

At the end of your life, your greatest regret won't be the things you did but wish you hadn't. Your greatest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had. It's the what if dreams that we never act upon that turn into if only regrets.

So how do we conserve the momentum of God's blessing? At the risk of sounding like a memorandum issued by the department of redundancy department, the only way to maintain momentum is to flip the blessing. If we fail to flip the blessing, we hit the point of diminishing return. Eventually, we lose all spiritual momentum and wonder why. I'll tell you exactly why: God doesn't bless selfishness.

I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. Ad we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.