Quotes about Reflection
Your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?
— Mark Batterson
Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."
— Mark Batterson
G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.
— Mark Batterson
From the secular to the sacred, we can focus on ourselves or others.
— Mark Batterson
Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.
— Mark Batterson
The Bible isn't meant to be read reactively. It is meant to be prayed proactively.
— Mark Batterson
If Christians believe that God is in every person, why don't we act like that?
— Mark Batterson
Time is measured in minutes, while life is measured in moments.
— Mark Batterson
Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
— Mark Batterson
Each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
— Mark Batterson
When we open our spiritual eyes, we start seeing God everywhere we look. We see the image of God in others. We see His fingerprints on His creation. We see God-ordained opportunities all around us all the time.
— Mark Batterson
We live in a culture where everyone wants to have his or her voice heard but has so little to say. And that's because we do so little listening, especially to God. The best way to get people to listen to us is for us to listen to God. Why? Because we'll have something to say that is worth hearing. Ultimately, all of us need to find our voice. And by voice I mean the unique message God wants to speak through our lives. But finding our voice starts with hearing His voice.
— Mark Batterson