Mark Hart Quotes

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."

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

Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

As I get older I've come to realize that the best way to "get even" with someone is to forgive - and then forget.

If you really want to change someone's life today, don't just pray for them... pray with them.

When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.

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

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.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.

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

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

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

If true love were only about feelings, Jesus would have been hugged to death for our redemption. Thank God for His cross this and every day.

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.

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

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

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

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

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.

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

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.

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His name.

Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.

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

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

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

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

The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you.

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.