Craig Groeschel Quotes
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.
Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?
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.
Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.
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.
Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.
Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.
Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.
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.
But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
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.
We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.
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.
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.
You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.
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.
We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.
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.
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.
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.
You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.
No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.
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.
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.
You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.
If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
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.
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.
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?
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.
You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
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.
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird.
How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.