Mark Hart Quotes

A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there.

Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.

God's truth is this: abortion is murder.

It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you ... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.

"Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.

Instead of loving the Trinity of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), we tend to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.

To love someone properly probably means that you won't be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it's the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it's the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it's the reason that you are alive.

You can usually tell by the look on someone's face if they woke up counting their problems or their blessings.

God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are.

Don't make Christ ride shotgun.

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

Life's too short not to tell the people you love how you feel. Say it ... and say it often. Oh, and start with God.

Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?

Your faith is measured by how well you love those who can't stand you.

The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.

The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee ...

Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him.

Stress will either drive you crazy or drive you to your knees. It depends on who is in control of your life.

The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.

As a father of young girls, I want to publicly thank all women who dress and carry themselves like ladies. Your example is a gift.

Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

God has great plans for you today ... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

It's easier not to love. Beware of the easy path this day.

Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility ... and watch what happens.

Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.

God has a plan for you today: one designed to help get you to Heaven.

We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones.

Never complain about growing old ... Some never have the privilege.

Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.

What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.

If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.

Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.

If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.

Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.

If the person who says they love you is unwilling to sacrifice for you it ain't love.

The miracle of Good Friday is that there was no miracle. Legions of angels stood - with swords sheathed - watching as the Son took our place.

If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.

We take a beautiful little boy and we put him in a diaper and we give him a lethal weapon and we say LOVE. Which makes absolutely no sense.

God is holding you in His heart, right at this very moment. It's a fact that can make you feel so small yet so big at the same time.

Tell the devil to go to hell ... that's where he belongs.

The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.

The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.

The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.

An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.

Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."

Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

There are 2 main things I've learned about following the Holy Spirit: It will never be easy. It will never be boring.

We often talk about how we are God's "hands and feet," which is true. That being said, we can't fall into the trap of thinking God needs us like we need Him. He's God - which makes the reality that He wants to use us and be in relationship with us an even sweeter, more profound truth.

If you want to love God better, hate sin more.

If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind ... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.

Using death to defeat death ... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?

You can't do God's will and satisfy everyone.

God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history.

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous ... and not in a good way.

Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close.

I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.

Honestly, I don't think Victoria has too many Secrets left ... might be time to prayerfully consider a name change.

Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.

You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.

What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord ... until we look upon the Lord ... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?