Craig Groeschel Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal.

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.

He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.

Godliness with contentment is rare.

Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond a couple together. Sex connects and fuses people together.

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.

Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you.

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

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

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

We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.

In God's economy, you may even harvest a crop in places where you didn't plant seed. When you're generous, you will be blessed, whether it comes to you materially, spiritually, emotionally, relationally, or some other way. God obviously cares much more about what happens in our hearts than what happens in our bank accounts, more about our attitudes than our credit scores. Giving generously changes you. It frees you up, undermines the power that money and possessions can have over you, and it makes you more like Him.

Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think.

Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.

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

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.

But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To talk to Him. To worship and praise Him. To fellowship with other brothers and sisters.

Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.

If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.

In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.

To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

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.

When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.

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

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.

While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.

The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring, and glorifying God. After all, generosity is fundamental to God's nature.

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

Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.

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

One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.

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

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to make a difference. They're willing to take a stand for whatever they believe, even to die for a cause. When they sell out to Jesus, they'll pursue a standard of righteousness that is greater than anything you and I ever saw growing up. Don't water it down. Don't lower the standard. And don't just settle for raising it-raise it higher. Believe in your children. Talk with them. Speak well of them. Encourage them. Pray for them. Celebrate the victories with them. Affirm their growth. We can raise a generation that, although they'll make mistakes, will sell out completely when Jesus grips them. They'll give Him everything. They'll make you proud by being even weirder than you are.

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

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

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

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

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today.

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

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.

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.

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.

He puts us here to make an eternal difference.He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them.He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart.

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.

He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.