Mark Hart Quotes

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.

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!'

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?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

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

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.

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

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

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

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

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

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

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

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

It's been a few days since I've seen my kids. My hearts racing; I can't wait to hold them. This is just a glimpse into God's heart at Mass.

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.

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

Reconciliation is the fastest way to change your life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I.

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

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

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

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

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

Some people say, "If you trust in God's unconditional love, why do you need to pray?" A better ending is "why wouldn't you want to?"

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

Sunday doesn't just prepare us for the week ahead - it prepares us for eternity.

Preaching Christ's truth always bears fruit. Of course, some people will probably end up wanting to throw that fruit at you.

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.