Top 300 Mark Batterson Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “The more faith you have, the more specific your prayers will be. And the more specific your prayers are, the more glory God receives.”

— Mark Batterson

152. “One step of obedience can open your eyes. One step of obedience can reverse the curse. One step of obedience can begin a new chapter in your life!”

— Mark Batterson

153. “It’s not about success and failure. It’s not about good days and bad days. It’s not about wealth or poverty. It’s not about health or sickness. It’s not even about life or death. It’s about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.”

— Mark Batterson

154. “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

155. “Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.”

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156. “Your greatest legacy isn’t your dream. Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspires – the dreams within a dream.”

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157. “Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you.” But there are others, such as, “Criticize by creating,” “Thou shalt offend Pharisees,” and “Catch people doing something right.”

— Mark Batterson

158. “I want to be famous in my home.”

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159. “Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.”

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160. “The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.”

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161. “When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn’t an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.”

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162. “They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.”

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163. “You can’t play the man if you don’t pray the price. That’s how God turns the heart. You’ll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. And prayer is what turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destiny of their children.”

— Mark Batterson

164. “Maybe it’s time to stop creating God in our image and let Him create you in His.”

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165. “Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn’t know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren’t emailing each other.”

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166. “I’ve always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn’t a magic formula, but it’s an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.”

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167. “Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.”

— Mark Batterson

168. “I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.”

— Mark Batterson

169. “The cure for the fear of failure isn’t success. The cure for the fear of failure is failure in small enough doses that we build up an immunity to it.”

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170. “Too often the church complains about culture instead of creating it. The energy we spend on criticism is being stolen from creativity. It’s sideways energy. We need fewer commentators and more innovators.”

— Mark Batterson

171. “If you want to see God move make a move.”

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172. “Don’t try to manufacture your own miracles. Don’t try to answer your own prayers. Don’t try to do God’s job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused. Keep circling.”

— Mark Batterson

173. “No matter how many wrong turns we’ve taken and no matter how many detours we’ve been down, it’s God’s grace that gets us back onto the parade route.”

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174. “There is a pattern repeated in Scripture: crazy miracles are the offspring of crazy faith. Normal begets normal. Crazy begets crazy. If we want to see God do crazy miracles, sometimes we need to pray crazy prayers.”

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175. “When everything is said and done, God isn’t going to say, “Well said,” “Well thought,” or “Well planned.” There is one measuring stick: “Well done, good and faithful servant!”5.”

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176. “Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.”

— Mark Batterson

177. “Do you find your identity in who you are or whose you are?”

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178. “The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.”

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179. “Second-degree faith is resurrection faith. It’s a faith that refuses to put periods at the end of disappointments. It’s a faith that believes that God can reverse the irreversible.”

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180. “If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.”

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181. “When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.”

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182. “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.”

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183. “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. And 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

184. “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.”

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185. “If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.”

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186. “We need to study the Word of God diligently. But we don’t need to know more. We need to do more with what we know. At the end of the day, God will not say, “Well thought, Intellectual,” or “Well said, Orator.” There is only one commendation: “Well done, good and faithful servant!”

— Mark Batterson

187. “Now here is what you need to understand: If you don’t turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else’s gain.”

— Mark Batterson

188. “We all want to spend eternity with God. We just don’t want to spend time with Him.”

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189. “Psychologists call this phenomenon the contrast effect. Simply put, how you see anything depends on your reference point. One way or the other, your focus will determine your reality.”

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190. “Jesus didn’t carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.”

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191. “We talk about “doing” the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with “being” than “doing.”

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192. “When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God’s good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it’s His reputation that is at stake. If we don’t give the Enemy a foothold, God won’t let him touch a hair on our head.”

— Mark Batterson

193. “We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask. During.”

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194. “We’ll never see God part the Jordan River if our feet are firmly planted on dry ground. But if we step into the river, God will part it.”

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195. “One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.”

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196. “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.”

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197. “I live by the maxim, love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That how you change someone’s life forever.”

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198. “Throwing down your staff is letting go and letting God. And that’s counterintuitive for those of us who are control freaks. As our executive pastor Joel Schmidgall likes to say, “You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.” If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.”

— Mark Batterson

199. “I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.”

— Mark Batterson

200. “When you pray regularly, you never know when God will show up or speak up. Today could be the day. When you live in prayer mode, you live with holy anticipation. You know that coincidences are providences. Any moment can turn into a holy moment. God can invade the reality of your life at three o’clock one afternoon and change everything.”

— Mark Batterson