Mark Hall > Quotes

“We all have sinned and fall short of his holiness. That’s why we need him. When he forgives me and comes into my life, he walks with me and gives me peace and hope — ironically enough, he gives me comfort — but I still have rough days. Sometimes they’re rougher because I do trust Jesus. But it’s not about having good days or bad days; it’s about being his.”
― Mark Hall, The Well: Why Are So Many Still Thirsty?

“Who cares what the Bible means to me? We need to know what it means. That's where I have to allow God to redefine my thinking. He tells us in Romans 12:2 not to be conformed to this world but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. What always gets me about this verse is he's telling believers we still need to be transformed. It means I have a saved spirit but I still think with a lost brain, and slowly but surely my mind has to be transformed. Such transformation comes but one way - by truth. By his Word.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal

“But it’s not about having good days or bad days; it’s about being his.”
― Mark Hall, The Well: Why Are So Many Still Thirsty?

“God equates spiritual depth with obedience.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal

“Phony never led anyone to Jesus.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“If you don’t learn to feed yourself, you wind up dumpster diving for someone else’s leftovers.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“God can handle your scars. So can any genuine, loving Christian.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“The real God...will give us more than we can handle just to show us that only he can handle things.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal

“Sooner or later, we have to realize that Jesus is more than church.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“Understanding and truly accepting God's forgiveness is the incubator to a meaningful walk with Jesus. As we escape the dregs of compromise to walk in purity and obedience, we are free to grow on God's timetable if we ignore the lies of the unholy world. And only by avoiding faulty human logic can we give our lives over to the seeming risk of a God who is actually unable to be anything but faithful.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal

“Jesus is not life enhancement. Jesus is life.”
― Mark Hall, The Well: Why Are So Many Still Thirsty?

“the church about which you find yourself most critical is probably the area where you’re supposed to serve. You’re seeing a hole that only you can see — ​because that’s your gift.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“As Christians, we can't live by what we feel or go off our gut, because it is rotten (Philippians 3:19). We have to live by truth. God has been constantly reminding me lately that his Word is truth. And truth is truth. It doesn't only become truth when we start believing it. Truth just is - for everybody everywhere and at all times.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal

“Compromise is the assassin of fellowship with God.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal

“Too often, what we want is the stuff of God. We want protection. We want his provision. We want to be defended when we’re dishonored. We want to be helped when we serve. We want what God can bring us, but do we really want him?”
― Mark Hall, The Well: Why Are So Many Still Thirsty?

“To show them who you are.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“There is a reason God used the east and west to describe how far he cast your sin from you,' he said. 'If you go north, you can only go north so far until you're finally going south. And you can only go south so far until you're going north. But if you start traveling east, it keeps going east forever, and west just keeps going west. If you think about it, you're never going to go so far west that you're going east. That's how far he cast our sin from us.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal

“What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.”
― Mark Hall

“Christians have huge buts, where we believe everything but [insert excuse here].”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“Jesus is not going to come join our lives. Jesus wants to become our lives.”
― Mark Hall, The Well: Why Are So Many Still Thirsty?

“The Bible says we are forgiven. It says we are saints. It says we are children of God, citizens of heaven, members of God's family, and chosen members of a royal priesthood. It says we are salt and light, we are people who dwell in a city set on a hill. It says we are co-heirs with Christ, ready to inherit the eternal life reserved for the saints. We cannot be separated from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal

“Church is the place to be broken together.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“The only way any of us will ever thrive is if we first learn Scripture and then just take him at his Word.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“God hasn’t called us to something in a year. We’re called for the here and now. We were not made to survive today for some potential future endeavor, something that maybe he’ll do through us one day.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“dead. We sinned. We blew it over and over. What was God’s part? He did it all. He chose us, made us alive, lavished his grace on us, started us, and will complete what he started.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“The living water passages tell us we become vessels for God to pour himself into so we can pour him into others.”
― Mark Hall, The Well: Why Are So Many Still Thirsty?

“Any darkness that comes out in my life is the fruit of my own appetites, and it's my choice either to feed or starve those appetites. I was purposely feeding on music and movies with dark, violent themes and plenty of sexual content. All of that takes root in our thought lives and affects everything we do. It clouds our communication with God and can limit how he uses us. If someone is in a dark place and needs help, we're probably not going to have suitable answers when we're gorging on trash.”
― Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal