Quotes about Growth
You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life. Of course, it'll probably be the toughest decision you ever make, the scariest risk you ever take. But if your dream doesn't scare you, it's too small.
— Mark Batterson
It's our past problems that prepare us for future opportunities. So someday we may be as grateful for the bad things as the good things because the bad things helped prepare us for the good things.
— Mark Batterson
It's not about doing great things for God; it's about God doing great things in us.
— Mark Batterson
Here is my point. The cure for the fear of failure is not success. It's failure. The cure for the fear of rejection is not acceptance. It's rejection. You've got to be exposed to small quantities of whatever you're afraid of. That's how you build up immunity.
— Mark Batterson
Sixth, tough conversations get tougher the longer you wait. I tend to avoid conflict, but I've come to realize that I'm not doing anybody any favors when I do so.
— Mark Batterson
God can deliver in a day, no doubt. But you've got to back up that deliverance with daily habits that fortify your newfound freedom. If you don't, it'll be short lived. You'll end up right back where you started
— Mark Batterson
If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.
— Mark Batterson
We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.
— Mark Batterson
So thank God for opposition. It forces us to pray like it depends on god, which it does. And it reconditions our reflexes in the process.
— Mark Batterson
Who you become is determined by how you pray.
— Mark Batterson
Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.
— Mark Batterson
Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
— Mark Batterson