Mark Batterson is an American pastor and author. Batterson serves as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. NCC was recognized as one of the Most Innovative and Most Influential Churches in America by Outreach Magazine in 2008. Batterson is also the author of the books In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day and Wild Goose Chase and blogs daily at www.evotional.com. Batterson’s bestseller The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears was released in December 2011. This Mark Batterson quotes will motivate you.
Best Mark Batterson Quotes
- “Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn’t chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radical. It’s normal. It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!” ~ Mark Batterson
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“If you seek answers you won’t find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “You’ll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. …Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. …Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“Worship is forgetting about what’s wrong with you and remembering what’s right with God.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “We usually focus on what we’re doing or where we’re going, but God’s primary concern is who we’re becoming in the process.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Vision beyond your resources? Don’t let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don’t really start living until we find something worth dying for” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don’t like in ourselves.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“If you aren’t hungry for God, you are full of yourself.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “In my experience, it’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Jesus didn’t die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “When God blesses you financially, don’t raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “God isn’t offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren’t impossible to you, they are insulting to God.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you’ll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you’ve been-even when it seemed you’d taken a wrong turn.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“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
- “You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that’s why the word ‘remember’ is repeated 250 times in Scripture.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don’t know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Embrace relational uncertainty. It’s called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It’s called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It’s called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It’s called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It’s called revelation.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “The more problems you have, the more potential you have to help people. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. […] If you don’t have any problems, you don’t have any potential. Here’s why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you’ve been wounded.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“All of us love miracles. We just don’t like being in a situation that necessitates one.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. […] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don’t, they don’t.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.” ~ Mark Batterson quotes
- “Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It’s the gift of inconvenience.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “If you’re bored, one thing is for sure: You’re not following in the footsteps of Christ.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “God won’t answer 100% of the prayers we don’t pray.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you’ve got to pray the price. You’ll get out of this what you put into it.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Sometimes we’re too focused on getting out of a situation that we don’t think about what we can get out of the situation.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “If you’ve never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven’t really come to life. If you’ve never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn’t perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “It’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!” ~ Mark Batterson
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“God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?” ~ Mark Batterson
- “I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God’s calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“Never underestimate the power of a single prayer.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won’t be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don’t seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you’re not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God’s kingdom in the world stall out because you weren’t there on the front lines?” ~ Mark Batterson
- “More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“Whatever you don’t turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It’s ‘all-nighter’ prayer. It just won’t take ‘NO’ for an answer!” ~ Mark Batterson
- “The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don’t have to fear anyone or anything else” ~ Mark Batterson
- “As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.” ~ Mark Batterson
