Mark Batterson Quotes

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

No one comes face to face with God and remains unchanged.

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

I want to have a lasting experience of God.

You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

Some believe we have little or no role in our own Christian maturity. God does everything, they think, and we simply have to "let go and let God." After all, if it's the "fruit of the Spirit," we should passively let him work within us as we abide in Christ.

We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.