Craig Groeschel Quotes

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
Craig Groeschel
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
Craig Groeschel
We don't even know how to rest anymore.
Craig Groeschel
...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.
Craig Groeschel
When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.
Craig Groeschel
He blesses us so we can be different.
Craig Groeschel
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
Craig Groeschel
Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.
Craig Groeschel
Godliness with contentment is rare.
Craig Groeschel
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.
Craig Groeschel
Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.
Craig Groeschel
In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.
Craig Groeschel
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
Craig Groeschel
I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.
Craig Groeschel
We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.
Craig Groeschel
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.
Craig Groeschel
When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.
Craig Groeschel
Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.
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Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
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I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.
Craig Groeschel
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).
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Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.
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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.
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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.
Craig Groeschel
While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.
Craig Groeschel
More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
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Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.
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We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.
Craig Groeschel
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.
Craig Groeschel
Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.
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Wherever you are, be all there.
Craig Groeschel
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
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.
Craig Groeschel
When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.
Craig Groeschel
There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.
Craig Groeschel
God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.
Craig Groeschel
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
Craig Groeschel
To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
Craig Groeschel
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.
Craig Groeschel
He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.
Craig Groeschel
God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share.
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And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound difference in countless lives.
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When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
Craig Groeschel
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.
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You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
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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.
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I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
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What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
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On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.
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He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
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What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
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Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird.
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How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
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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.
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You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.
Craig Groeschel