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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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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The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
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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.
