Craig Groeschel Quotes

Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.

You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.

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

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

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

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.

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

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.

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.

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've found that the things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden.

The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say it again. Prayer is simply communicating with God. That one uncomplicated thought began to revolutionize my whole prayer life. What is communication? It's transferring a thought, feeling, emotion, or idea to another person. So prayer is giving God my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas, by whatever means works. It doesn't have to be formal. It doesn't have to be long and dry. It's simply communicating.

Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird.

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.

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

It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, "I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.

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

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.

And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.

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.

Wherever you are, be all there.

If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our hearts, starting with our eyes.

Weird people love well.

Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.

No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

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.

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.

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

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.

Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.

...If we believe that God wants us happy above all else, rather than acknowledging that our role is to serve God, we wrongly believe that God exists to serve us. God becomes a a means to our end: happiness.

Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.

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

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

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.

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing.

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

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

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

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.

God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.

He desperately wants you to know Him. So many people believe in God, but they don't really know Him. And because they don't really know Him, they are lukewarm. The truth is, if you truly knew Him, you couldn't be lukewarm or halfhearted. If you remain lukewarm, maybe it's because you don't know who God really is.

Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.