Craig Groeschel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

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

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

What you pray for reflects what you believe about God.

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

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you're not dead...you're not done.

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

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

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

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.

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

The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fears!

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.

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

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

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).

What we value determines what we do.

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

You are only as strong as you are honest.

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.

You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are.

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.

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

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

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

Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God's responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those we love, trust him as our provider, and trust his sovereign plan, that gives us the foundation to step out in faith. We can trust that he'll always be faithful.

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.

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

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

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

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

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.

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

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.