Mark Batterson Quotes

Only the wounded physician heals.

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.'

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I have endured pain and suffering in my life, things haven't always been easy, I have suffered. And now I can help people in their lives.

I always say the more problems you have, the more opportunities you have.

A lot of people say I inspire them or I've helped them - kids who have been bullied in school or parents coming up to me because their kids have been bullied or anything that they've went through. It really touches me.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about it. If your husband's been unfaithful to you, you know what that's like, you know how that feels. You can share true empathy with someone.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

Failure should be our teacher...

I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!

I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on.