Quotes from Craig Groeschel

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

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

I've identified four specific kinds of toxic waste that can poison our minds: (1) pessimism, which usually produces chronically negative thoughts; (2) anxiety, which usually manifests as fearful and worried thoughts; (3) bitterness, which pollutes our thinking with discontented and envious thoughts; and (4) criticism, which pumps destructive judgmental thoughts into our minds.

YOU CANNOT CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, BUT YOU CAN CONTROL HOW YOU FRAME IT.

Instead of sacrificing for the cause of Christ, people appeared to be consuming, not contributing.

Pain in the moment, and hope for the future. But sometimes the pain seems to yell, while hope only whispers.

We know for certain that we are not made right with God by our good works. We are saved only by grace through faith. And while we're not saved by good works, we are saved for good works.

God calls you to stand. Your enemy wants you to fall. So as God's warrior, there are only two acceptable actions. You're either standing or you're getting back up. Even if Satan trips you, you're not down forever. Get back up. Never stay down.

In some ways, negative self-talk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just as an athlete is more likely to make the shot after visualizing making it, she's also more likely to miss it after visualizing a miss. Your words, whether externally spoken or internally absorbed, shape your future.

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

The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifting the whole time and never realized it until we couldn't find our way back.

But have we reached a point where technology and social media can hurt us as much as they help us?

Ministries that have it always have a clear vision

Behind every great story there's always another story.

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

As we become scarred and desensitized to what is right and wrong, good and evil, life-giving and life-draining, we lose sight of our first love. We move away from God one degree at a time.

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.

Santiago 1:22 señala: «No se contenten sólo con escuchar la palabra, pues así se engañan ustedes mismos. Llévenla a la práctica».

In order to decide to trust, you have to let yourself doubt.

Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.

Al elegir a sus amigos, Jesús se rodeaba de los solitarios, los quebrantados, los ignorados por la sociedad. Dios te está llamando a formar parte de su iglesia, a ser su iglesia. Si no te consideras lo suficiente bueno, eres exactamente la persona que él está buscando.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

Con la ayuda de Dios, puedes transformar tu mente. Puedes dejar de creer las mentiras que has abrazado por mucho tiempo. Puedes dar fin al círculo vicioso de pensamientos que te destruyen a ti y a otros. Puedes permitir que Dios renueve tu mente y la sature con su inmutable verdad. Puedes permitir que los pensamientos de Dios lleguen a ser tus pensamientos.

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.