Quotes from Mark Batterson

The Bible comes alive only when we actively obey it.

The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers.

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness...There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person. ...Our fundamental problem is that we are selfish. Marriage is the means whereby God eradicates our selfishness because it is not about "me" anymore, i t is about "we.

Is there a limit to my power?" The obvious answer to that question is no. God is omnipotent, which means by definition, there is nothing God cannot do. Yet many of us pray as if our problems are bigger than God.

I believe that God never overpromises or underdelivers. He always delivers on His promises, but He does it on His timeline!

At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Success is when those who know you best respect you most.

Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective.

One of the most exhilarating things in the world is doing something that no one thinks you can do.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does.