Craig Groeschel Quotes & Sayings

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

The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people. — Craig Groeschel

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

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

I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church. — Craig Groeschel

From the outside, everything looked good. But God doesn't look at the outside. — Craig Groeschel

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. — Craig Groeschel

Full-time lover of your world; part-time lover of God — Craig Groeschel

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

Contrast toxic religion with the pure gospel. Religion is all about what I do. The gospel is all about what Jesus has done. Religion is about me. The gospel is about Jesus. Religion highlights my efforts to do what is right. The gospel highlights what Christ has already done. Religion lures me to believe that if I obey God, he will love me. But the gospel shows me that because God loves me, I get to obey him. Religion puts the burden on us. We have to do what is right. A relationship with Christ puts the burden on him. And because of what he did for us, we get to do what is right. Instead of an obligation, our right living is a response to his gift. Giving Christ our whole lives is the only reasonable response to such love. There nothing more we need to do. Nothing ... — Craig Groeschel

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

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness. — Craig Groeschel

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

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

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ. — Craig Groeschel

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

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

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. — Craig Groeschel

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

Good things are not necessarily God things. — Craig Groeschel

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future. — Craig Groeschel

1. Seek God. 2. Fight fair. 3. Have fun. 4. Stay pure. 5. Never give up. — Craig Groeschel

Be who God called you to be. Live for the an audience of ONE. — Craig Groeschel

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. — Craig Groeschel

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

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

My point is when the odds are fifty-fifty in an area of your life that matters, you change your behavior. — Craig Groeschel

I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them. — Craig Groeschel

But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14 — Craig Groeschel

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

When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith. — Craig Groeschel

Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you. — Craig Groeschel

We find our lives when we give them away. — 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

Where your money goes, there your heart follows. — Craig Groeschel

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

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. — Craig Groeschel

The truth: you have what you need. Watch out for excuses. Whenever you're tempted to whine about what you don't have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything He wants you to do. — Craig Groeschel

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

Once we acknowledge that God is the main character, only then can we even begin to get to that place where we're no longer tempted to let our emotions drive us. We — Craig Groeschel

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

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders. — Craig Groeschel

Normally, we're never satisfied. — Craig Groeschel

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening. — Craig Groeschel

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. — Craig Groeschel

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

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

Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself. — Craig Groeschel

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Craig Groeschel

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

God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it. — 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

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

What we value determines what we do. — Craig Groeschel

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose. — Craig Groeschel

The clearer your vision becomes, the easier it is to guard what God calls you to do. — Craig Groeschel

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

We are far from perfect but willing to be different. — Craig Groeschel

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

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. — Craig Groeschel

If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming. — Craig Groeschel

Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. — Craig Groeschel

Wisdom is all about the simple, often tiny, obvious things, done consistently, one at a time. — Craig Groeschel

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. — Craig Groeschel

We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals "I'm available" to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding. — Craig Groeschel

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

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

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. — Craig Groeschel

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. — Craig Groeschel

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

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. — Craig Groeschel

Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness. — Craig Groeschel

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently. — Craig Groeschel

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

The problem with thinking "we go to church" is that it gives us a consumer mindset: I'm looking for a church that meets my needs. I need a good church that will help me. — Craig Groeschel

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

Deciding you should get divorced because you've run out of love is like deciding you should sell your car because it has run out of gas. No reasonable person would ever do that. You simply put more gas in your car and go on. If your marriage "love low" light comes on, pull over and start putting love back into your marriage. Once you've filled it back up, then you can go on. SOWING — Craig Groeschel

To be great at a few things and experience it, you'll have to say no to many things. — 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

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. — Craig Groeschel

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

The current of normalcy will pull you away from God at every opportunity if you let it. — Craig Groeschel

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. — Craig Groeschel

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

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

If God does what you think he should do, trust him. If God doesn't do what you think he should do, trust him. If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him. If your worst nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign. Believe he is good. — Craig Groeschel

Rather than experiencing the richness of a dynamic, intimate relationship with the righteous One, you put God in a little box that you can check off your to-do list each week. By settling for rules and religion and feeling pretty good about how much you're doing for the church and those less fortunate, you become blinded to legalism and self-righteousness. — Craig Groeschel

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

the strongest man is not the one who lifts the most weight but the one who has the most faith. — Craig Groeschel

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you. — Craig Groeschel

If you've messed up big - like me, like Isaiah - congratulations! You're at the top of God's talent-scouting list. — Craig Groeschel

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. — Craig Groeschel

A man without a cause from God is often just an angry man who doesn't know where to direct his pent-up energy and aggression. A warrior with a cause from God directs that warlike energy for a cause greater than himself. — Craig Groeschel