Quotes about Growth
if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.
— Mark Batterson
The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.
— Mark Batterson
We need the patience of the planter. We need the foresight of the farmer. We need the mindset of the sower.
— Mark Batterson
Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.
— Mark Batterson
We were meant for more than a safe ride when God placed us here. Any part of this life that offers more, requires more, or asks more of us than we are used to is an opportunity to grow more, dream more, and be more than we are now.
— Mark Batterson
You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.
— Mark Batterson
Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.
— Mark Batterson
if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.
— Mark Batterson
if you learn from every mistake, then there is no such thing as failure anyway.
— Mark Batterson
Can our prayers change our circumstances? Absolutely! But when our circumstances don't change, it's often an indication that God is trying to change us.
— Mark Batterson
We should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances
— Mark Batterson
Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.
— Mark Batterson