Mark Batterson Quotes

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

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

In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

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

A man must himself be cleansed, before cleansing others

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.