Top 300 Mark Batterson Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Every divine appointment is preceded by a season of preparation. And if we submit to the preparation, God will fulfill His promise. If we don’t, He won’t. Why? Because God never sets us up to fail.”

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

156. “The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.”

— Mark Batterson

157. “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

158. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

160. “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

161. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

162. “Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads.”

— Mark Batterson

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

166. “Matthew 11:12? “From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.” Are you playing offense in your marriage? Or are you playing a prevent defense that leaves romance on the sidelines?”

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

168. “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

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

— Mark Batterson

170. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

173. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

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.”

— Mark Batterson

175. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

176. “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

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

— Mark Batterson

178. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

179. “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

180. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

182. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

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

— Mark Batterson

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

— Mark Batterson

189. “Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other’s strengths.”

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190. “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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191. “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

192. “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

193. “The hands-down most important spiritual discipline is getting into God’s Word on a daily basis. When you open the Bible, God opens His mouth.”

— Mark Batterson

194. “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

195. “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

196. “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.”

— Mark Batterson

197. “Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.”

— Mark Batterson

198. “Too often we pray ASAP prayers – as soon as possible. We need to start praying ALAT prayers – as long as it takes.”

— Mark Batterson

199. “Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical.”

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200. “I’m a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.”

— Mark Batterson