Quotes about Vision
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...
- William Saroyan
May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
- Mark Batterson
What if you knew you wouldn't fail--what would you do? What if time and money weren't an object--what God-sized goal would you go after? If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. The same is true of opportunity.
- Mark Batterson
Prayer and imagination are directly proportional: the more you pray the bigger your imagination becomes because the Holy Spirit supersizes it with God-sized dreams.
- Mark Batterson
Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.
- Mark Batterson
We need the patience of the planter. We need the foresight of the farmer. We need the mindset of the sower.
- Mark Batterson
We don't get a vision from God by going to conferences. We might get some good ideas, but God-ideas are only revealed in the presence of God.
- Mark Batterson
Once you embrace the omnipotence of God, you'll draw ever-enlarging circles around your God-given, God-sized dreams.
- Mark Batterson
Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in two years, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years.
- Mark Batterson
If you don't have a personal definition of success, chances are you will succeed at the wrong thing. You'll get to the end of your life and realize that you spelled success wrong. And if you spell it wrong, you'll get it wrong.
- Mark Batterson
the God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.
- Mark Batterson
If you don't have a dream, get around people who do. You might just catch what they have.
- Mark Batterson