Quotes about Faith
Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical.
— Mark Batterson
Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary.
— 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
God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called. -The Circle Maker-
— Mark Batterson
Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God. We get overanxious. We try to microwave our own answers instead of trusting God's timing. But here's an important reminder: If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you. There comes a point after you have prayed through that you need to let go and let God. How? By resisting the temptation to manufacture your own answer to your own prayer.
— Mark Batterson
If you don't hold out on God, I can promise you this: God will not hold out on you. But it's all or nothing.
— Mark Batterson
Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does.
— Mark Batterson
A relationship begins when we open the front door, but it doesn't end there. He knocks on the closet doors too! Jesus doesn't just want in. He wants all in.
— Mark Batterson
Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn't give you what you asked for?
— Mark Batterson
Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.
— Mark Batterson
There is no regret God cannot redeem.
— Mark Batterson
Why do we mistakenly think that God is offended by our prayers for the impossible? The truth is that God is offended by anything less! God is offended when we ask Him to do things we can do ourselves. It's the impossible prayers that honor God because they reveal our faith and allow God to reveal His glory.
— Mark Batterson