Mark Driscoll quotes: top 159 famous quotes by Mark Driscoll

“If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.”

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“Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.”

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Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

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“Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.”

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“If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.”

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“Once we determine in our souls that God's glory is our goal, we then stop taking the path of least resistance and start taking the path of most glory to God”

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“All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something's preeminent rather than God.”

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While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we're in fact not loving people as much as we're using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we're so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It's as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance

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“The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?”

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“Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.”

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“I'd go home to a wife whom I was not sexually enjoying.”

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“The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.”

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“For the husband, the male prostate can only be accessed through the anus. It is called the "male G-spot" as it is reportedly a source of great pleasure when stroked by such things as a wife's finger.”

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To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.

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“We want to state this carefully: a spouse who is evil, distant, cruel, unloving, or abusive should not use this information to demand more sex from his wife without first dealing with his sin.”

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Back in high school, once she suspected that I was probably not a Christian, she did not break up with me as she should have.

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“We need more Spirit-empowered Christians who take seriously their call to witness to God's work in this world, and to do so in unity with other Christians, even if they don't agree on some secondary matters.”

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The world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.

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Many modern Christians will take the best programs from every church while committing to no church. They even have a name for it: church shopping.

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“To live is Christ, and to die is gain.[213]”

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“Not all parachurch ministries are bad; in fact, the best ones foster collaboration across churches for important ministry and unity.”

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“What happens if you walk into a church and try to find out what a man looks like?”

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“The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house.”

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“Corporate worship is to be intelligible.”

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“It's amazing how quickly evangelicals turn into evangellyfish with no spiritual vertebrae when they start to lose money, job security, cultural clout, or public support.”

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“Moralizing is reading the Bible not to learn about Jesus but only to learn principles for how to live life as a good person by following the good examples of some people and avoiding the bad examples of others. That kind of approach to the Scriptures is not Christian, because it treats the Bible like any other book with moral lessons that are utterly disconnected from faith in and salvation from Jesus.”

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“Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.”

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“Corporate worship is to be unselfish.”

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“Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.”

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“Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of”

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“I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate ... often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them.”

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“Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn't eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn't play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.”

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“Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.”

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“No one can remain neutral regarding Jesus' resurrection.
The claim is too staggering,
the event too earthshaking,
the implications too significant
and the matter too serious.
We must either receive it or reject it as truth for us.
To remain indifferent or undecided is to reject it.”

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“Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.”

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“This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.”

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God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.

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Every great cause was initiated by someone whose heart was broken.

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“You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.”

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You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.

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“The goal of Christian dating is not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend but to find a spouse. Have that in mind as you get to know one an- other, and if you're not ready to commit to a relationship with the end goal of marriage, it's better not to date but simply to remain friends.”

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One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.

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“We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.”

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Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.

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“Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.”

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“Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.”

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“The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on his iPod, gets his hair cut at a salon instead of a barber shop, hasn't been to an Ultimate Fighting match, works out on an elliptical machine instead of going to isolated regions of Russia like in Rocky IV in order to harvest lumber with his teeth, and generally swishes around like Jack from Three's Company whenever Mr. Roper was around.”

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“It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.”