Mark Batterson Quotes

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.