Top 300 Mark Batterson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!”

— Mark Batterson

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2. “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.”

— Mark Batterson

3. “If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you’ll be waiting till the day you die.”

— Mark Batterson

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4. “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

5. “Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.”

— Mark Batterson

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6. “The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.”

— Mark Batterson

7. “One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.”

— Mark Batterson

8. “Never underestimate the power of a single prayer.”

— Mark Batterson

9. “God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.”

— Mark Batterson

10. “God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.”

— Mark Batterson

11. “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

12. “Don’t wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you’ve got to worship along the way.”

— Mark Batterson

13. “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

14. “If you seek answers you won’t find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.”

— Mark Batterson

15. “Worship is forgetting about what’s wrong with you and remembering what’s right with God.”

— Mark Batterson

16. “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

17. “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

18. “Faith is not logical. But it isn’t illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.”

— Mark Batterson

19. “You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.”

— Mark Batterson

20. “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

21. “Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.”

— Mark Batterson

22. “Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.”

— Mark Batterson

23. “Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.”

— Mark Batterson

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation?”

— Mark Batterson

28. “And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.”

— Mark Batterson

29. “What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.”

— Mark Batterson

30. “GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.”

— Mark Batterson

31. “You need to circle the goals God wants you to go after, the promises God wants you to claim, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. And once you spell Jericho, you need to circle it in prayer. Then you need to keep circling until the walls come tumbling down.”

— Mark Batterson

32. “You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.”

— Mark Batterson

33. “Jesus didn’t die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn’t holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.”

— Mark Batterson

34. “If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.”

— Mark Batterson

35. “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

36. “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

37. “More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.”

— Mark Batterson

38. “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

39. “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

40. “The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.”

— Mark Batterson

41. “When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.”

— Mark Batterson

42. “If you don’t take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.”

— Mark Batterson

43. “Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.”

— Mark Batterson

44. “Uniqueness isn’t a virtue. It’s a responsibility.”

— Mark Batterson

45. “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

46. “When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?”

— Mark Batterson

47. “Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!”

— Mark Batterson

48. “Faith is the willingness to look foolish.”

— Mark Batterson

49. “If you aren’t hungry for God, you are full of yourself.”

— Mark Batterson

50. “To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.”

— Mark Batterson