Craig Groeschel Quotes

The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifting the whole time and never realized it until we couldn't find our way back.

God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

What you pray for reflects what you believe about God.

Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.

If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.

You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.

Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.

I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.

Being consumed by what people think of you is the fastest way to forget what God thinks of you.

When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both.

Suffocate the flames of envy with a blanket of gratitude.

Rather, we are who God says we are: his children. We are forgivable. We are changeable. We are capable. We are moldable. And we are bound by the limitless love of God.

Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.

I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we're really committed to Him. But what if it's designed as God's way of giving us what's best for us?

When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

Even though I'm upset, angry, confused, frustrated, disappointed, and impatient, I will remember who God is.
The Lord is still in charge.
And he is good.
He is righteous.
He is true.
He is faithful.
He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and ever present.
The world may seem upside down, but the Lord is still there.
He is sovereign, and he has a plan - a much bigger plan than I can see right now.
I have to respect that he is God and I am not.
His timing is not my timing.
His ways are higher than I'll ever understand.
He is supreme in all wisdom, and he knows the end from the beginning.
I'm just a person, his creation.
He has everything under control.

Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.

The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. Whenever my organization starts to settle I believe I have to lift my lid, my capacity I have to think and act in a different way to achieve different results.

Offer God what you have and trust Him to give you what you need.

We're living for Likes, but we're longing for love.

Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you're tempted to tell me that yours doesn't, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people.

Respect is EARNED but honor is GIVEN.

When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

The road to committed faith is paved with personal abandonment and self-denial. Life ceases to be about us, and it begins to be all about God.

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

Limited Resources + Increasing Passion = Exponential Innovation

You can have control. You can have growth. But, you can't have both.

fear actually relies on faith...it's simply faith in the wrong things. Fear is placing you faith in "what ifs" rather in than in "God is

And there is nothing you can do to make God love you less. Love is not something God does. It is who God is. And because of who he is, God loves you. Period.

Once we acknowledge that God is the main character, only then can we even begin to get to that place where we're no longer tempted to let our emotions drive us. We

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.

While it's easy to believe the worst, God wants you to believe the best. He never promises a trouble-free life of leisure, but he does promise never to leave you and always to love you.

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more.

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

The truth: you have what you need. Watch out for excuses. Whenever you're tempted to whine about what you don't have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything He wants you to do.

If you are not dead, you are not done.

We will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ.

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?

Don't insult God with safe living and small thinking.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

What you fear reveals where you trust God the least

The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.

The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.

Put him first. Seek him with all of your heart, and he will add everything that matters. Be still and know that he is God.

Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.

To those of you who are leading LifeGroups, I want you to know, you are the heroes of our mission.

A man with nothing to fight for quickly becomes a frustrated man, often without a clue as to why.

Don't build your ministry on what you're against. Build your ministry on what you're for.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

This is God's universe; we just live in it. He doesn't owe us anything. We owe him everything. What did you make? Nothing. He made everything. For everything you have, you owe him.

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

If you're not ministering and using your gifts in the church, then something God wants done is being ignored.

We don't recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

If you want your ministry to have 'it', more important than anything else we've discussed, you must have 'it'. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God's anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with 'it'. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard!

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you do. The reason why you care and others don't could be because God has aimed it directly at you.

If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.

Having more of this world never fulfills. Only more of Christ does.

My pastor used to say you're either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.

We find our lives when we give them away.

Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness.

Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.

And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound difference in countless lives.

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

You are who God says you are, not who people say you are. Don't try to base your life on the unstable foundation of human opinions, but instead, build on the unshakable truth of God.

Full-time lover of your world; part-time lover of God

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

The current of normalcy will pull you away from God at every opportunity if you let it.

For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.