Top 80 Mark Driscoll Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.”

— Mark Driscoll

2. “God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.”

— Mark Driscoll

3. “You can’t meet Jesus and not change. If you haven’t changed, you haven’t met the real Jesus.”

— Mark Driscoll

4. “Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.”

— Mark Driscoll

5. “Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.”

— Mark Driscoll

6. “Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.”

— Mark Driscoll

7. “Truthless times need timeless truths.”

— Mark Driscoll

8. “Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.”

— Mark Driscoll

9. “If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.”

— Mark Driscoll

10. “I am not ashamed of the Gospel.”

— Mark Driscoll

11. “Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.”

— Mark Driscoll

12. “The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they’re right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.”

— Mark Driscoll

13. “Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.”

— Mark Driscoll

14. “Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things.”

— Mark Driscoll

15. “Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.”

— Mark Driscoll

16. “Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that’s what Jesus, the Real Man, did.”

— Mark Driscoll

17. “Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.”

— Mark Driscoll

18. “The only thing worse than dying is living a boring life.”

— Mark Driscoll

19. “You don’t need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.”

— Mark Driscoll

20. “The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.”

— Mark Driscoll

21. “The goal of Christian dating is not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend but to find a spouse. Have that in mind as you get to know one an- other, and if you’re not ready to commit to a relationship with the end goal of marriage, it’s better not to date but simply to remain friends.”

— Mark Driscoll

22. “Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want to be a good friend but do not wisely seek good friends are bound to be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and suffer from their foolish friend choices.”

— Mark Driscoll

23. “Don’t believe false teaching that says you won’t suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.”

— Mark Driscoll

24. “Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.”

— Mark Driscoll

25. “Faith only grows through suffering.”

— Mark Driscoll

26. “Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?”

— Mark Driscoll

27. “A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.”

— Mark Driscoll

28. “Ladies, use a loving voice, use a respectful voice, use a godly voice, but don’t lose your voice.”

— Mark Driscoll

29. “I want to live with autonomy. That’s the essence of sin.”

— Mark Driscoll

30. “Being single is not easy. But neither is being married. They are just difficult in different ways as God uses everything in our life to make us more like Jesus, who happened to live a perfect life while single.”

— Mark Driscoll

31. “Everyone is sinning, so it’s no longer rebellious to sin. You’re just a conformist if you’re drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone’s done that. That’s so tired!”

— Mark Driscoll

32. “I know who made the environment and he’s coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.”

— Mark Driscoll

33. “This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.”

— Mark Driscoll

34. “The problem with criticism today is that is instant, constant, global and permanent.”

— Mark Driscoll

35. “Indeed, the world is our mission field, and Jesus is our model incarnational missionary who went before us and now goes with us as we continue in his work by his Spirit as his church for his glory to our joy.”

— Mark Driscoll

36. “Faith is not just what we believe internally. It’s how we behave externally.”

— Mark Driscoll

37. “I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It’s all about brutal honesty.”

— Mark Driscoll

38. “We don’t name God; God reveals His name to us. We don’t have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.”

— Mark Driscoll

39. “Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.”

— Mark Driscoll

40. “Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn’t matter nearly as much as offense to others.”

— Mark Driscoll

41. “Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He’s the One Who says we also need human friends.”

— Mark Driscoll

42. “Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he’s not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.”

— Mark Driscoll

43. “Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he’s already written.”

— Mark Driscoll

44. “We’re not to follow our hearts, we’re to guard our hearts.”

— Mark Driscoll

45. “I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.”

— Mark Driscoll

46. “Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of.”

— Mark Driscoll

47. “An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.”

— Mark Driscoll

48. “The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.”

— Mark Driscoll

49. “A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.”

— Mark Driscoll

50. “God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.”

— Mark Driscoll