Craig Groeschel famous quotes

What you pray for reflects what you believe about God.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Believe #Praying

Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Credit #Might #Blame

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise
-- Craig Groeschel

#Want #Causes #Unwise

Offer God what you have and trust Him to give you what you need.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Giving #Needs #Offers

When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard!
-- Craig Groeschel

#Water #Yards #Looks

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.
-- Craig Groeschel

#People #Want #Normal

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Giving #Gods Will #Handle

If you're not dead...you're not done.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Done

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Destiny #Steps #Security

You are only as strong as you are honest.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Strong #Honest

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Doubt #Storm #Causes

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Christian #Children #Priorities

When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Deep Love

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.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Keys #Care #Reason

The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Decision #Stories #Today

If your vision doesn’t compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Moving #People #Vision

We need to step into certain uncertainty. Without faith it is impossible to please God.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Needs #Steps #Impossible

Respect is EARNED but honor is GIVEN.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Honor #Given

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

#Miracle #Never Settle #Identity

Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.
-- Craig Groeschel

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.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Strong #Healing #Grace

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Mind #Battle #Lost

To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing
-- Craig Groeschel

#People #Reaching

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Thinking #People #Way

Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Toxic #Needs #Bitterness

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).
-- Craig Groeschel

#Moving #Mean #Thinking

You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Water #Boat #Walks

It's almost impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Wrong Friends #Impossible

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Selfish #Life Changing #Details

The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fears!
-- Craig Groeschel

#Pathways #Our Greatest Fear

To reach people that no one is reaching you have to do things that no one is doing.
-- Craig Groeschel

#People #Reaching

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Leader #Tasks #Followers

If you are not ready to face opposition then you are not ready to be used by God.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Faces #Used #Ready

You want to make a big bold difference in this world? Then pray big, bold prayers.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Prayer #Differences #World

All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose.
-- Craig Groeschel

#People #Purpose #Ends

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

#Prayer #May

You don't have to know what to say or what to do; just listen to the one who sent you.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Just Listen

Integrity starts from the inside out, not the outside in.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Integrity

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!
-- Craig Groeschel

#Events #Persons

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Pain #Differences #Want

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Character #Thinking #People

The things we worry about the most are the hints we trust God with the least.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Worry #Hints #Trust In God

The younger generation can smell fakes - Authenticity trumps cool.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Smell #Fake #Generations

If you are not dead, you are not done.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Done

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Trying #Failing #Failure Is Not An Option

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Labels #Break #Hostage

God has blessed me with more than I need. I'm rich. I will not trust in riches but in Him who richly provides. Because I have more, I will give more and do more.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Blessed #Giving #Needs

Boldness is behavior born out of belief.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Belief #Behavior #Born

What we value determines what we do.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Determine #Values

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing
-- Craig Groeschel

#Helping #Right Thing

Lord, use me today, use me for your glory, make me bold, stir me up, give me eyes to see the needs of those I work with, give me a heart sensitive to those who are hurting, give me a prompting of the Spirit to minister to those who are around me.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Hurt #Heart #Eye

The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Heart #Pharisees #Offensive

If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Offending #Pharisees

When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Gratitude #Ego #Filled

Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Risk #Taking Risks

God had to do something IN me before He could do something THROUGH me.
-- Craig Groeschel

God has given you every thing you need to reach every person you need to reach.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Needs #Given #Persons

Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Believe #Needs #Firsts

Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Motivation #Passion #Innovation

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Giving #Judging #Would Be

When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we love ourselves, and we we're definitely not seeing them as God sees them.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Brother #People #Brothers And Sisters

Being consumed by what people think of you is the fastest way to forget what God thinks of you.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Thinking #People #Way

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Pain #Lying #Believe

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Mirrors #Roots #People

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

#Worry #Obeying God

Don't worry when you're being persecuted for God, worry when you're not.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Worry

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing
-- Craig Groeschel

#People #Ministry #Want

True loyalty is proven not proclaimed.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Loyalty

We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Eternal Life

Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Hurt #Roots #Forgiving

Don't insult God with safe living and small thinking.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Thinking #Safe #Insult

The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Christian #Atheist #Found

To those of you who are leading LifeGroups, I want you to know, you are the heroes of our mission.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Hero #Want #Missions

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.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Fighting #People #Mind

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Believe #Views #Lenses

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Purpose #Misuse

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.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Integrity #Passion #Heart

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Trying #Watches #Faces

I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Followers #Christ #Pastor

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Church #Calling #World

Honor, publicly, results in influence, privately.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Honor #Influence #Results

Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.
-- Craig Groeschel

#One Day #Credit #Blame

Sometimes God guides by what He withholds, rather than what He provides.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Sometimes #Guides

If the Devil can’t make us really bad, then he’ll try to make us really busy.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Trying #Devil #Busy

Gentleman, God created you with the heart of a warrior. Until there’s something you’re willing to die for, you can’t truly live.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Heart #Warrior #Gentleman

Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Wave #Intention #Reacting

There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Dream #Home #Vacation

You see, religion alone can only take a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about Jesus
-- Craig Groeschel

#Jesus #Nice #Inward

I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we’re really committed to Him. But what if it’s designed as God’s way of giving us what’s best for us?
-- Craig Groeschel

#Christian #Believe #Giving

We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Volunteer #Leader #World

You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Weakness #Needs #Overwhelmed

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.
-- Craig Groeschel

#People #Weakness #Might

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.
-- Craig Groeschel

#People #Envy #Goodness

The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Mr Right #Dating #Facts

Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.
-- Craig Groeschel

#Calling #Matter #Waste

What you fear reveals where you trust God the least
-- Craig Groeschel

#Trust In God