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You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

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Mark Batterson
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
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If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.
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One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
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One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.
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The more problems you have, the more potential you have to help people. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. [...] If you don’t have any problems, you don’t have any potential. Here’s why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you’ve been wounded.
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Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.
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The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
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God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.
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May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
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Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.
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We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.
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Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.
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To the infinite, all finites are equal.
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