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The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams And Greatest Fears Quotes

The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams And Greatest Fears by Mark Batterson

"Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers."
"God isn’t offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less."
"The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked."
"If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it."
"Success is not about being in the right place at the right time; it’s about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances."
"The miracles that have happened would not have happened if I hadn’t drawn a circle around them in the first place."
"If you do pray, all bets are off. You can live with holy anticipation because you never know how or when or where God is going to answer."
"God has determined that certain expressions of His power will only be exercised in response to prayer."
"Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future."
"Who you become is determined by how you pray."
"Lord, if You will bless my husband in the place You sent him to establish Your name...I will walk with You for three years in prayer, both day and night."
"Most of us don’t get what we want because we quit circling."
"Praying through doesn’t just bend God’s ear; it touches the heart of your heavenly Father."
"You are always only one prayer away from a miracle."
"Vision beyond your resources is synonymous with dreaming big."
"If you seek answers you won’t find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you."
"The greatest chapters in history always begin with risk."
"You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours."
"Lord, do something unpredictable and uncontrollable."
"If you want God to surprise you, you have to give up control."
"When you pray regularly, you never know when God will show up or speak up."
"God can invade the reality of your life at three o'clock one afternoon and change everything."
"Mark, I just wanted to show you that I can do one better."
"If you aren’t willing to be perplexed, you’ll never be amazed."
"If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history."
"God can do anything through anyone who circles their big dreams with bold prayers."
"One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans."
"Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain."
"God is infinitely bigger than your biggest problem or biggest dream."
"God doesn’t call the qualified; God qualifies the called."
"100 percent of the prayers I don’t pray won’t get answered."
"The viability of our prayers has more to do with intensity than vocabulary."
"The only way you can fail is if you stop praying."
"God is still honoring spiritual desperadoes who crash parties and climb trees."
"No matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes' in Christ."
"If God did it for Elijah, He can do it for me."
"It’s hard not to pray with faith when you’re praying in a place where God has already done a miracle."
"With each answered prayer, we draw bigger prayer circles. With each act of faithfulness, our faith increases."
"No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly."
"If you take God at His word, you’ll make the joyful discovery that God wants to bless you far more than you want to be blessed."
"God is not holding out or holding back. It’s not in His nature to withhold any good thing from us."
"The favor of God is what God does for you that you cannot do for yourself."
"Praying hard is standing on the promises of God."
"The hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers."
"By definition, praying hard is praying when it’s hard to pray."
"Sometimes God gets in the way to show us the way."
"God loves showing up in unexpected ways at unexpected times."
"Prayer is like that. It has a way of opening the right doors at the right time."
"Sometimes the answer to our prayers is no and you’ll never understand why."
"When you follow in the footsteps of Jesus, you never know what door He may open."
"God closes doors in order to open bigger and better doors."
"You can’t pray for open doors if you aren’t willing to accept closed doors, because one leads to the other."
"Praying hard is trusting that God will fight our battles for us."
"Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave."
"Our prayers exit our own reality of space and time. They have no time or space restrictions because the God who answers them exists outside of the space and time He created."
"What we’ll remember are the days when we had everything to do, and with God’s help, we did it."
"Our greatest answers often come on the heels of our longest and most boring prayers."
"Prayer invites God into the equation, and when that happens, all bets are off."
"If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do."
"We tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade."
"What if we stopped reading the news and started praying it?"
"Maybe we’d come a lot closer to our goal: praying without ceasing."
"Each one represents a breakthrough. Each one is a symbol of the impossible becoming possible."
"If you want to experience a supernatural breakthrough, you have to pray through."
"Your spirit becomes like a sea of glass because you know it’s out of your hands and in the almighty hands of God."
"If you allow them to, your disappointments will create drag."
"Fasting has a way of fast-tracking our prayers."
"The moment you began praying, a command was given."
"It is when you need to press in and pray through."
"The simple act of imagining doesn’t just remap your mind; it forms a map."
"Your destiny is the result of your daily decisions and defining decisions."
"The problem isn’t desire; the problem is power."
"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again."
"All you have to worry about is winning the battle today."
"You need some God-sized goals that qualify as crazy."
"When you live by faith, it often feels like you are risking your reputation. You’re not. You’re risking God’s reputation."
"Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you."
"He answers every prayer, and He keeps every promise."
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood."
"God is always a step ahead, even when we feel like He’s a step behind."
"You never know what answer you might receive if you make the call."
"Our prayers are prophecies, and God Almighty seals them until their designated time."
"Our prayers don't dissipate over time; our prayers accumulate through eternity."
"The Lord is watching over His word to perform it."
"Every number has a name, every name has a story, and every story matters to God."
"Prayer is the difference between the best you can do and the best God can do."
"Your life is in His hands, and your prayers are in His bottle."
"When you draw a circle and drop to your knees, you can't never always sometimes tell."
"Don't let what you cannot do keep you from doing what you can."