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The more you’re willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in you and through you.

Mark Batterson

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Mark Batterson
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
Pastor
Writer
Willing
Use
Everything
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Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.
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One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.
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Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.
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Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.
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The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
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The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.
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Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.
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If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.
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I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.
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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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