The Grave Robber Quotes

“Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person’s entire perspective on life. It has the potential to change a person’s plotline for eternity. The right word at the right time can be the catalyst for someone else’s miracle.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“Don’t seek miracles. Follow Jesus. And if you follow Jesus long enough and far enough, you’ll eventually find yourself in the middle of some miracles.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“Joy is not getting what you want. It’s fully appreciating what you have. And it starts with the basics, like water.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“We live in a fallen world with free will. We know that God loves us and has a wonderful plan for our lives, but we conveniently forget the flip side: the enemy hates us and has a horrible plan for our lives. His agenda is to steal, kill, and destroy.6 That doesn’t mean we should live in fear, because as John reminds us, He that is in us is greater than He that is in the world.7 And “if God is for us, who can be against us?”8 But we best not forget that each of us is born on the cosmic battlefield between good and evil. And we must choose sides. In the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“Sometimes God shows up. Sometimes God shows off.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“If you follow Jesus, you’ll do what He did. You’ll seek to please the heavenly Father first and foremost. You’ll care for the poor, you’ll wash feet, and you’ll offend some Pharisees along the way. You’ll also traffic in the miraculous. And it won’t just be as an eyewitness. It’ll be as a catalyst. Please believe me when I say, you are someone else’s miracle! Make no mistake about it: only God can perform miracles. So God gets all of the glory.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“We pick and choose our favorite verses while ignoring the texts we cannot comprehend or don’t particularly like. We rationalize the verses that are too radical. We scrub down the verses that are too supernatural. We put Scripture on the chopping block of human logic and end up with a neutered gospel. We commit intellectual idolatry, creating God in our image. So instead of living a life that resembles the supernatural standard set in Scripture, we follow an abridged version of the Bible that looks an awful lot like us.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“One step of obedience can open your eyes. One step of obedience can reverse the curse. One step of obedience can begin a new chapter in your life!”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“FOR NEARLY THIRTY years, the One who had crafted the universe with His voice crafted furniture with His hands. And He was good at what He did—no crooked table legs ever came out of the carpenter’s shop in Nazareth.1 But Jesus was more than a master carpenter. He was also God incognito. His miraculous powers rank as history’s best-kept secret for nearly three decades, but all that changed the day water blushed in the face of its Creator.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“If your personal genome sequence was written out longhand, it would be a three-billion-word book. The King James Version of the Bible has 783,137 words, so your genetic code is the equivalent of nearly four thousand Bibles. And if your personal genome sequence were an audio book and you were read at a rate of one double helix per second, it would take nearly a century to put you into words!”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“Never put a comma where God puts a period and never put a period where God puts a comma.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“In the words of Corrie ten Boom, “There is no pit too deep that God’s grace isn’t deeper still.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time, but it’s up to us to see and seize those opportunities that are all around us all the time.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“When you obsess over your sin instead of His forgiveness, it's easy to forget that you're His pride and joy.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“Jesús no sufrió una muerte brutal en la cruz solo para mantenernos sanos y salvos. Jesús murió para hacernos peligrosos, temerarios. Murió para que retemos al diablo.”
― Mark Batterson, El ladrón de tumbas: Cómo Jesús puede hacer posible tu imposible

“está bien. Por eso la valentía moral es el tipo de coraje menos frecuente. Hace falta ser temerario para hacer lo correcto.”
― Mark Batterson, El ladrón de tumbas: Cómo Jesús puede hacer posible tu imposible

“Pero también quiero que puedan pararse erguidos y fuertes en defensa de lo correcto. Vivimos en una cultura en la que es malo decir que algo está mal. Y eso no solo es un error, sino que hace que sea más difícil hacer lo que”
― Mark Batterson, El ladrón de tumbas: Cómo Jesús puede hacer posible tu imposible

“Una de mis oraciones por mis hijos es que tengan corazones blandos pero columnas vertebrales fuertes. Quiero que sus corazones sean sensibles a la quieta voz del Espíritu Santo. Oro porque les duela el corazón por las mismas cosas que le duele a Dios.”
― Mark Batterson, El ladrón de tumbas: Cómo Jesús puede hacer posible tu imposible

“Sometimes you’ve got to do the natural before God will do the supernatural.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“In February 1804, Jefferson went to work with a razor. He clipped his favorite passages out of his Bible and pasted them in double columns on forty-six octavo sheets. Jefferson included the teachings of Jesus but excluded the miracles. He deleted the virgin birth, the resurrection, and every supernatural event in between. In the words of historian Edwin Gaustad, “If a moral lesson was embedded in a miracle, the lesson survived in Jeffersonian scripture, but the miracle did not. Even when this took careful cutting with scissors.”3 The story of the man with the withered hand is a classic example. In Jefferson’s Bible, Jesus still offers commentary on the Sabbath, but the man’s hand is”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“What do you do when God’s logic doesn’t line up with yours? When the will of God doesn’t add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“Albert Einstein said it best: “Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person’s entire perspective on life.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

“All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance.”
― Mark Batterson, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible