Quotes about God
Preaching may move the hearts of men, but praying moves the heart of God. And that's where revival comes from.
- Mark Batterson
We usually hear what we want to hear and turn a deaf ear to everything else. But remember the package deal? If we don't listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won't hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least. But this I know for sure: His tone of voice is always loving. Sometimes it's tough love in the form of rebuke or discipline, but it's loving, nonetheless.
- Mark Batterson
You can take Psalm 84:11 to the bank: No good thing does God withhold from those who walk uprightly.
- Mark Batterson
Once you embrace the omnipotence of God, you'll draw ever-enlarging circles around your God-given, God-sized dreams.
- Mark Batterson
Everybody wants a miracle; we just don't want to be in a situation where we need one. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes what we perceive as our problem is really God setting us up to do something miraculous in our lives. It's about training ourselves to see those problems as opportunities so God can intervene.
- Mark Batterson
Preaching may move the hearts of men, but praying moves the heart of God.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson
The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.
- Mark Batterson
This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
- Mark Batterson
Our prayers don't die when we do. God answers them forever.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson
But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.
- Mark Batterson