Quotes about Patience
God doesn't always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it's obedience that glorifies God.
- Mark Batterson
if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.
- Mark Batterson
Can our prayers change our circumstances? Absolutely! But when our circumstances don't change, it's often an indication that God is trying to change us.
- Mark Batterson
Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused. Keep circling.
- Mark Batterson
faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...
- Mark Batterson
God cannot reveal His faithfulness until we exercise our faith. But because Abraham went all in, God was able to reveal Himself as Jehovah-jireh, God our Provider.
- Mark Batterson
We should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances
- Mark Batterson
God, how long is a million years to you?" God said, "A million years is like a second." Then the man asked, "How much is a million dollars to you?" God said, "A million dollars is like a penny." The man smiled and said, "Could you spare a penny?" God smiled back and said, "Sure, just wait a second.
- Mark Batterson
Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.
- Mark Batterson
If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.
- Mark Batterson
We all want to spend eternity with God. We just don't want to spend time with Him.
- Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. But the right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.
- Mark Batterson