A Trip around the Sun Quotes

“Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“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, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation?”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“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, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“...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, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“The leading cause of failure is mismanaged success. And the leading cause of success is well-managed failure.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“The healthiest, holiest, and happiest people on the planet are those who laugh at themselves the most.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“We were meant for more than a safe ride when God placed us here. Any part of this life that offers more, requires more, or asks more of us than we are used to is an opportunity to grow more, dream more, and be more than we are now.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“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, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“We should live with a holy anticipation of what’s around the corner.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you.”
― Richard Foth, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Following Jesus is a verb.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“A. W. Tozer once said, “Eternity won’t be long enough to discover all that God is or praise him for all that he’s done.”6”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.2”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“As the interview ended, I asked him one last question: “If you had one thing to say about God and man, what would you say?” He paused, switched to English, and said, “Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: “love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person’s need.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Goals have a way of refocusing your life. They give you purpose and a target to shoot for. They are the compass of our dreams, helping us set a steady course. Goals comprise direction and progress. When we lose sight of our goals, we tend to lose sight of ourselves and who we are trying to become, who God has made us to be.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“When we go adventuring with Jesus, He takes us places we never dreamed we could go, gives us ideas we never thought we could have, and gives us friends that last forever.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“In working through nonreligious language to explain that journey, the idea of place became very important. 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.” This simplicity captured me. Everyone understands places. We all have them. It’s where we live our lives day to day. Then Jesus walks into our place and redirects us.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“New Testament scholar Dr. Gordon Fee said that life is a wilderness, and a compass doesn’t help very much. A map certainly doesn’t help because you have to know where you are for starters. What you need in a place you’ve never been before is a guide. Jesus becomes the Guide to the Father’s house.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Defining moments. Intentional strategies. Adventurous living. Most of us spend our trips around the sun accumulating the wrong things. Possessions are a dime a dozen. Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“God is setting you up! He is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. And His angels are our advance team! Each trip around the sun has been carefully choreographed for us by the Creator of the universe. We just need to take His cues.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime

“Maximum improbability equals maximum possibility.”
― Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime