Mark Batterson Quotes

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

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

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

Conversion is a daily thing.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I'm always trying to find ways to evolve. Evolution, for me, is a very spiritual thing, getting closer to the creator, closer to God, and becoming a better version of yourself.

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

To have more, we must first become more.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

Growth is often a painful process.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.