Quotes about Spirituality
God is big enough. He's big enough to speak through doors and dreams and people. He's close enough to speak through desires and promptings and pain.
- Mark Batterson
Praise is a higher dimension of faith.
- Mark Batterson
You don't become a praying parent by default. You do it by design, by desire, by discipline. Spiritual disciplines take sheer determination, but if you determine to circle your children in prayer, you will shape their destinies, just like Susanna Wesley shaped the destinies of her children. Your prayers will live on in their lives long after you die. Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.
- Mark Batterson
Don't just go out and do what Dick Eastman or your spiritual hero did. That's a spiritual cop-out. Copycat spirituality is short lived.
- Mark Batterson
To believe that God speaks only through the Bible is to handcuff the God of the Bible as the Bible has revealed Him to us. Yes, Scripture provides our checks and balances.
- Mark Batterson
Catholic priest Desiderius Erasmus coined the Latin phrase vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. Translation: "Bidden or not bidden, God is here.
- Mark Batterson
The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked.
- Mark Batterson
Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.
- Mark Batterson
The Bible isn't meant to be read reactively. It is meant to be prayed proactively.
- Mark Batterson
The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us.
- Mark Batterson
if we are going to experience a miracle one day, we need to pray every day. Too many people pray like they are playing the lottery. Prayer is more like an investment account. Every deposit accumulates compound interest. And one day, if we keep making deposits every day, it will pay dividends beyond our wildest imagination.
- Mark Batterson
If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
- Mark Batterson