Craig Groeschel Quotes

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

We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.

~ Craig Groeschel

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

~ 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.

~ Craig Groeschel

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.

~ Craig Groeschel

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

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

~ 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).

~ Craig Groeschel

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

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

~ Craig Groeschel

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

~ 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

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

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

~ Craig Groeschel

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

~ Craig Groeschel

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.

~ Craig Groeschel

In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.

~ Craig Groeschel

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

~ 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

Godliness with contentment is rare.

~ Craig Groeschel

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

~ Craig Groeschel

He blesses us so we can be different.

~ Craig Groeschel

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

~ Craig Groeschel

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

~ 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

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