Craig Groeschel Quotes - Page 4

Integrity starts from the inside out, not the outside in.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

As it goes with leaders, so it goes with the whole organization.

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

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.

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

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.

Boldness is behavior born out of belief.

Respect is EARNED but honor is GIVEN.

If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective.

We will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ.

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

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.

God's will is clear about many things. We're to be holy. I like the metaphor that his Word is a lamp to our feet. A lamp may help guide my next one or two steps, but it's not a crystal ball into the future.