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...people live longer when they decide to become passionately involved in something beyond themselves.Richard Foth
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Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]Mark Batterson
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Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.Mark Batterson
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...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.Mark Batterson
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...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.Mark Batterson
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...if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.Mark Batterson
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Following Jesus is a verb.Mark Batterson
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Jesus says, "Here's the deal! I'll leave My place. I'll come to your place. I'll take your place. And then we'll go to My place.Richard Foth
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Sometimes we get off course, desiring things or setting goals that will lead to no good end. But if our desire is in the right place, loving Jesus and loving others, there is no telling where Jesus can take us.Richard Foth
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...we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us...and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us... We were made to explore.Richard Foth
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Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.Mark Batterson
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I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.Mark Batterson
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The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they'd never done and go where they'd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.Mark Batterson
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Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.Mark Batterson
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You don't have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.Mark Batterson
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...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
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When Scripture says, "As a man thinks, so is he, " it is raw truth. How we approach life and react to its vagaries determines the bulk of our character. How we love is locked into how we think about it. What angers us is triggered by how we think. It is between our ears that we decide how easily offended we will be. When it comes to harsh words from others, whether my skin absorbs like cotton or deflects like Teflon is a decision I make. All of that happens in a three-pound organ five-and-a-half inches across called my brain. In a very real sense, my world begins and ends between my ears. I don't have to be brain-dead to be brain-defeated.Richard Foth
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True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility... Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.Mark Batterson
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We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are...if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful eye, they will find something to celebrate even in the worst of circumstances... Having a "good eye" in life changes how you see yourself and everything around you... your focus determines your reality.Mark Batterson
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...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.Mark Batterson
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...success is when those who know you best respect you most.Mark Batterson
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Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.Mark Batterson
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As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!Mark Batterson
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How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.Mark Batterson
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Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you.Richard Foth
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At the end of the day most folks do exactly what they want to, so we need to focus on the want to.Richard Foth
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...your life is your sermon... Are you a good translation?Mark Batterson
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If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.Mark Batterson
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Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.Mark Batterson
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The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness... There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person.... Our fundamental problem is that we are selfish. Marriage is the means whereby God eradicates our selfishness because it is not about "me" anymore, i t is about "we.Mark Batterson
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...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.Mark Batterson