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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.

Mark Batterson

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Mark Batterson
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
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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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Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.
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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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Life a life of Spiritual Adventure. Much like a wild goose the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it's like to pursue the Spirit's leading through life.
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Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
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God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
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We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.
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Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
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You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.
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Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.
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Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
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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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Don’t accumulate possessions accumulate experiences!
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If you want to see God move make a move.
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