Craig Groeschel Quotes

Full-time lover of your world, part-time lover of God

~ Craig Groeschel

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.

~ Craig Groeschel

It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.

~ Craig Groeschel

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

~ Craig Groeschel

Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?

~ 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

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

~ 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

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

~ Craig Groeschel

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

~ Craig Groeschel

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've found that 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

Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.

~ Craig Groeschel

Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable, it's also unbiblical.

~ Craig Groeschel

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

~ Craig Groeschel

The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say it again. Prayer is simply communicating with God. That one uncomplicated thought began to revolutionize my whole prayer life. What is communication? It's transferring a thought, feeling, emotion, or idea to another person. So prayer is giving God my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas, by whatever means works. It doesn't have to be formal. It doesn't have to be long and dry. It's simply communicating.

~ Craig Groeschel

Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.

~ Craig Groeschel

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.

~ Craig Groeschel

You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got today provided for. And probably tomorrow too. Maybe even into next winter, with all the food socked away in that extra freezer in the garage.

~ Craig Groeschel

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

~ 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

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.

~ Craig Groeschel

For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.

~ Craig Groeschel

Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.

~ Craig Groeschel

She said, Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can. Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.

~ 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

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. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

~ Craig Groeschel

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

~ Craig Groeschel

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

~ Craig Groeschel

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.

~ Craig Groeschel

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

~ Craig Groeschel

Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.

~ 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

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

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.

~ Craig Groeschel

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.

~ Craig Groeschel

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

~ Craig Groeschel

Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.

~ 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

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

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.

~ Craig Groeschel