Mark Driscoll
10 quotes
Biography
Mark A. Driscoll is an American evangelical pastor and author.
"We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people."
"Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery."
"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."
"Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom."
"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."
"The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?"
"Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to parties and the religious people don't."
"if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts."
"An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control."
"Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world."