Craig Groeschel Quotes - Page 3

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

Where your money goes, there your heart follows.

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

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

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.

There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.

How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.

When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God's way). Your past may be a part of who you are, but it certainly doesn't have to define your future. Or if you feel stuck and unable to change directions and move toward God, think of this transformation another way. The Bible says that God is the Potter and we are his clay (Jer. 18:2-6).

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

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

You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got today provided for. And probably tomorrow too. Maybe even into next winter, with all the food socked away in that extra freezer in the garage.

Normal people attempt countless goals with limited success. Weird people focus on just one God-given objective with tremendous results.

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.

The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.

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

He blesses us so we can be different.

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