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Mark Batterson QUOTES

Mark Batterson QUOTES

1 " 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 , In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

2 " 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 , In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

3 " When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving. "

― Mark Batterson

4 " If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

5 " God will never tempt you. It's not in His nature. In fact, He promises to provide an escape route for every tempting situation. But I can promise you this: God will test your faith. And those tests won't get easier. They will get progressively harder as the stakes get higher. And those tests will undoubtedly revolve around what is most important to you...

God will test you to make sure your identity and your security are found in the cross of Jesus Christ. And God will go after anything you trust in more than Him until you put it on the altar. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

6 " There are spiritual gifts like mercy, faith, or generosity that enable people to set the standard, so to speak. But just because you don't have that spiritual gift doesn't mean you aren't held to any standard at all. Even if you aren't gifted in that way, you're still called to live mercifully, faithfully, and generously. You might not set the standard, but you need to meet the standard. There is a baseline that all of us are called to. When the opportunity presents itself, we need to show mercy, exercise faith, and give generously. In the same sense, all of us are called to take risks. If it doesn't involve risk, it doesn't exercise faith. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

7 " I don't know about you, but I want God to reveal the second step before I take the first step of faith. But I've discovered that if I don't take the first step, God generally won't reveal the next step...

Most of us will only follow Christ to the point of precedence -- the place where we have been before. But ...

If you want God to do something new, you cannot keep doing what you've always done. You've got to push past the fear of the unknown. You've got to do something different. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

8 " We want a money-back guarantee before we take a step of obedience, but that eliminates faith from the equation. Sometimes we need to take a flying leap of faith.

We need to step into the conflict without knowing if we can resolve it. We need to share our faith without knowing how our friends will react to it. We need to pray for a miracle without knowing how God will answer. We need to put ourselves in a situation that activates a spiritual gift we've never exercised before. And we need to go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

If we want to discover new lands, we've got to lose sight of the shore. We've got to leave the Land of Familiarity behind. We've got to sail past the predictable. And when we do, we develop a spiritual hunger for the unprecedented and lose our appetite for the habitual. We also get a taste of God's favor. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

9 " ...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers... "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

10 " Nine times out of ten, failure is resorting to Plan B when Plan A gets too risky, too costly, or too difficult. That's why most people are living their Plan B. They didn't burn the ships. Plan A people don't have a Plan B...

There are moments in life when we need to burn the ships to our past. We do so by making a defining decision that will eliminate the possibility of sailing back to the old world we left behind. You burn the ships named Past Failure and Past Success. You burn the ship named Bad Habit. You burn the ship named Regret. You burn the ship named Guilt. You burn the ship named My Old Way of Life. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

11 " If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

12 " In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. "

― Mark Batterson

13 " Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

14 " God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

15 " There is nothing God loves more that keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams. "

― Mark Batterson , The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

16 " I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They need spiritual revelation. They don't need to think about politics on the weekend. They need to be reminded to seek first the kingdom of God. "

― Mark Batterson

17 " We give people political labels, sexual labels, and religious labels. But in the process, we strip them of their individuality and complexity. Prejudice is pre-judging. It's assuming that bad stories end badly, but Jesus is in the business of turning bad beginnings into happily ever afters.
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God cannot give up on you. It's not in His nature. His goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. All you have to do is turn around. All you have to do is crash the party! "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

18 " The spiritual tipping point is when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of change. Sadly, too many of us get comfortable with comfort. We follow Christ to the point of inconvenience, but no further. That's when we need a prophet to walk into our lives, throw a mantle around our shoulders, and wake us up to a new possibility, a new reality. We need a prophet to boldly confront Plan B and call us back to Plan A. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

19 " ...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

20 " ...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life