Quotes from the book: Chase the Lion by Mark Batterson

• If your dream doesn't scare you, it's too small.
• You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life.
• I have a theory: your favorite scripture will become the script of your life.
• At the end of our lives, our greatest regrets will be the God ordained opportunities we left on the table, the God-given passions we didn’t pursue, and the God sized dream is we didn’t go after because we let fear dictate our decisions.
• Most people believe God is real, but few people actually live like it. 
• God honors big dreams because big dreams honor God.
• You fulfill your destiny one opportunity at a time.
• If you’re looking for an excuse, you’ll always find one.
• The best way to discover your dream is to help other people accomplish theirs!
• The size of your dream may be the most accurate measure of the size of your God.
• This book is a call to repentance-repent of your small dreams and your small God. It’s also a dare-dare to go after a dream that is bigger than you are.
• When Jesus walked out of the tomb on the third day, the word impossible was deleted from our dictionary.
• Imagination is God’s gift to you. A dream is your gift back to God.
• Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspires-the dreams within a dream.
• Honor your up line! Empower your downline!
• Quit complaining about what’s wrong, and do something that makes a difference!
• Great conflict cultivates great character.
• The true measure of a gift is what you gave up to give it.
• That’s what the mighty men found in David-a cause worth living for, a dream worth dying for. If you don’t have a dream, get around people who do. Dreams are highly contagious!
• Impossible odds set the stage for God's greatest miracles!
• God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time.
• One small step of faith can turn into a giant leap.
• Destiny doesn’t make appointments.
• When we failed to take action, we forfeit the future.
• Don’t let what you cannot do keep you from doing what you can.
• If you want to reach people no one is reaching, you might have to do something no one else is doing.
• What got you here might not get you where you need to go next. You have to reinvent yourself, reimagine your life.
• Whether it’s a stop doing list or a start doing list, a dream without a to do list is called a wish list.
• You can’t just pray as if it depend solely on God; you also have to work as if it depends on you. It’s your work ethic plus your prayer ethic that will inch you closer to your dream.
• No one achieved his or her dream without daily disciplines.
• Games aren’t won on game day. Games are won in the weight room, the film room, the locker room.
• We live in a culture that celebrates 15 minutes of fame, but God honors a lifetime of faithfulness.
• To achieve the highest level of success in any field, you need a high pain threshold when it comes to failure.
• Change of pace + change of place = change of perspective
• Only when the dream is dead and buried can it be resurrected for God’s glory.
• Don’t put a period where God put a comma.
• More often than not, what we perceive is a no is really a not yet.
• When we operate in faith we aren't risking our reputation. We’re risking God’s reputation!
• Faith is taking the first step before God reveals the second step.
• Faith is claiming out on a limb, cutting it off, and watching the tree fall down.
• Faith is willingness to look foolish.
• Gratitude is thanking God after He does it. Faith is thinking God before He does it.
• If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

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