Quotes from Mark Batterson

If you take thirty linear steps, you're ninety feet from where you started. But if you take thirty exponential steps, you've circled the earth twenty-six times!2 Faith isn't linear. Faith is exponential.

Dream big, pray hard, and think long.

Here's the point: God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. But those God-given opportunities often come disguised as man-eating lions. And how we react when we encounter those lions will determine our destiny. We can cower in fear and run away from our greatest challenges. Or we can chase our God-ordained destiny by seizing the God-ordained opportunity.

We can't just know what we believe; we need to know why we believe what we believe.

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

An untamed tongue is far more dangerous than an untrained sword.