Mark Batterson Quotes

As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.