Quotes by Mark Batterson

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You cant just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

...people can go to church every week of their lives and never go all in with Jesus Christ. Im afraid weve cheapened the gospel by allowing people to buy in without selling out. Weve made it too convenient, too comfortable. Weve given people just enough Jesus to be bored but not enough to feel the surge of holy adrenaline that courses through your veins when you decide to follow Him no matter what, no matter where, no matter when.

...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

...if youre walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance theyll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Following Jesus is a verb.

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God’s voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.

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.

Going all in and all out for the All in All is both a death sentence and a life sentence. Your sinful nature, along with its selfish desires, is nailed to the cross. Then, and only then, does your true personality, your true potential, and your true purpose come alive. After all, God cannot resurrect what has not died. And thats why so many people are half alive. They havent died to self yet.

In Gods kingdom, calling trumps credentials every time! God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called. And the litmus test isnt experience or expertise. Its availability and teachability. If you are willing to go when God gives you a green light, He will take you to inaccessible places to do impossible things.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesnt mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. Its an opportunity to glorify God.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what theyd never done and go where theyd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

You dont have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didnt carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.

Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. Its loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy and holier-than-thou. Holiness, in its purest form, is irresistible. Thats why sinners couldnt be kept away from Jesus. Hypocrisy has the opposite effect. Its as repulsive to the irreligious as the Pharisees religiosity was to Jesus.

...each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.