Quotes about Inspiration
Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.
— Mark Batterson
Preaching may move the hearts of men, but praying moves the heart of God.
— Mark Batterson
If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice.
— Mark Batterson
Your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?
— Mark Batterson
we should listen to most as we choose a vocation is the voice that we might think we should listen to least, and that is the voice of our own gladness. What can we do that makes us the gladdest?…I believe that if it is a thing that makes us truly glad, then it is a good thing and it is our thing."20 I might even add, it's a God thing. If there is a lesson to be learned from Eric
— Mark Batterson
If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.
— Mark Batterson
If you don't have a dream, get around people who do. You might just catch what they have.
— Mark Batterson
Your dream is more than a dream. It's a calling. Sure, someone hired you and someone can fire you. But they didn't call you. God did. And if you forget that fact, you forget why you do what you do and Who you do it for.
— Mark Batterson
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
I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. Ad we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.
— 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
Celebrate what you want to see more of. That's one way to fan into flame the gift of God.
— Mark Batterson