Mark Batterson Quotes

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

First you will feel your inner transformation in your outer relationships, and then you will go deep. Then only will you begin to feel something inner. But we have a settled attitude about ourselves. We don't want to look into relationship at all, because then the naked face comes up.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.