Top 300 Mark Batterson Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “God often speaks loudest when we’re quietest.”

— Mark Batterson

252. “Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.”

— Mark Batterson

253. “But over the long haul, we regret inactions more than actions, 84 to 16 percent.”

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254. “Please read prayerfully what I’m about to write. When God puts a passion in your heart, whether it be relieving starvation in Africa or educating children in the inner city or making movies with redemptive messages, that God-ordained passion becomes your responsibility. And you have a choice to make. Are you going to be irresponsibly responsible or responsibly irresponsible?”

— Mark Batterson

255. “The true purpose of prayer is to get into God’s presence so He can outline His agenda for us. Here’s my advice: pray about what to pray about. God will reveal a promise, a problem, or a person. Then circle whatever God has prompted you to pray for with the same kind of consistency with which the earth circles the sun.”

— Mark Batterson

256. “Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.”

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257. “God-ordained dreams aren’t just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God’s glory.”

— Mark Batterson

258. “When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next.”

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259. “Don’t seek miracles. Follow Jesus. And if you follow Jesus long enough and far enough, you’ll eventually find yourself in the middle of some miracles.”

— Mark Batterson

260. “If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.”

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261. “Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?”

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262. “The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility. It takes all the pressure off of us and places it squarely on God’s sovereign shoulders.”

— Mark Batterson

263. “One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It’s the gift of inconvenience.”

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264. “What’s unique about Washington is that no one’s from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.”

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265. “Anybody can say ‘I do’ at the altar; the hard part is saying ‘I do’ every day thereafter. Anybody can set a life goal; the hard part is going after it every day. Anybody can say no to any addiction for a day, but you have to say it day after day after day.”

— Mark Batterson

266. “More than a hundred years ago, a British revivalist issued a holy dare that would change a life, a city, and a generation. That timeless challenge echoes across every generation: “The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.”

— Mark Batterson

267. “One reason many of us never get an answer to our prayers is that all we do is pray.”

— Mark Batterson

268. “The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word “opportunity”. It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.”

— Mark Batterson

269. “When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When.”

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270. “Following Jesus is a verb.”

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271. “God can deliver you in one day, but it may take years to break old habits or build new habits.”

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272. “Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.”

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273. “If you’re bored, one thing is for sure: You’re not following in the footsteps of Christ.”

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274. “I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.”

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275. “What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?”

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276. “Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.”

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277. “Why do we act as though our sin disqualifies us from the grace of God? That is the only thing that qualifies us! Anything else is a self-righteous attempt to earn God’s grace. You cannot trust God’s grace 99 percent. It’s all or nothing. The problem, as I pointed out earlier, is that we want partial credit for our salvation. We want to be 1 percent of the equation. But if we try to save ourselves, we forfeit the salvation that comes from Jesus Christ alone, by grace through faith.”

— Mark Batterson

278. “Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.”

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279. “If your deepest feelings are reserved for something other than Almighty God, then that something other is an emotional idol... if you get more excited about material things than the simple yet profound fact that your sin was nailed to the cross by the sinless Son of God, then you’re bowing down to Tammuz.”

— Mark Batterson

280. “Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.”

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281. “If your personal genome sequence was written out longhand, it would be a three-billion-word book. The King James Version of the Bible has 783,137 words, so your genetic code is the equivalent of nearly four thousand Bibles. And if your personal genome sequence were an audio book and you were read at a rate of one double helix per second, it would take nearly a century to put you into words!”

— Mark Batterson

282. “All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn’t our job; it is God’s job.”

— Mark Batterson

283. “If you follow Jesus, you’ll do what He did. You’ll seek to please the heavenly Father first and foremost. You’ll care for the poor, you’ll wash feet, and you’ll offend some Pharisees along the way. You’ll also traffic in the miraculous. And it won’t just be as an eyewitness. It’ll be as a catalyst. Please believe me when I say, you are someone else’s miracle! Make no mistake about it: only God can perform miracles. So God gets all of the glory.”

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284. “Going all in and all out for the All in All is both a death sentence and a life sentence. Your sinful nature, along with its selfish desires, is nailed to the cross. Then, and only then, does your true personality, your true potential, and your true purpose come alive. After all, God cannot resurrect what has not died. And that’s why so many people are half alive. They haven’t died to self yet.”

— Mark Batterson

285. “Society’s goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: “Be normal!” Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.”

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286. “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

287. “Before you step into what if, you have to get past if only.”

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288. “Prayer must be in alignment with the will of God or it’s null and void... It it’s not God’s will, you’re not going to get whatever you ask for. God loves you far too much to spoil you in that way. But if it is God’s will, God will make a way.”

— Mark Batterson

289. “You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn’t mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It’s an opportunity to glorify God.”

— Mark Batterson

290. “In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.”

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291. “It’s hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn’t have a blog component.”

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292. “Jesus Himself was untamed.”

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293. “When we lose our sense of wonder, what we really lose is our soul. Our lack of wonder is really a lack of love.”

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294. “I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.”

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295. “The only way to predict the future is to create it. You don’t let it happen. You make it happen. How? Stop regretting the past and start learning from it. Let go of guilt by leaning into God’s grace. Quit beating yourself up and let the Spirit of God heal your heart. You cannot divorce yourself from the past. You are married to it forever. But God wants to reconcile your past by redeeming it. God is in the recycling business; He makes recycled goods out of wasted lives.”

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296. “Most of us don’t get what we want because we don’t know what we want. Here’s our secondary problem: Most of us don’t get what we want because we quit circling.”

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297. “God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.”

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298. “Until you hear the voice of God, you won’t be able to sing His song. Why? Because you’re out of tune.”

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299. “Only God can make the appointment, but only you can keep the appointment.”

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300. “Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.”

— Mark Batterson