Mark Batterson Quotes
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
Quotes to Explore
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
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I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.
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I always love to dress up, but I usually end up in a leather jacket and boots!
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Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.
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Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
