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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 day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.
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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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Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.
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Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.
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If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.
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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.
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