Quotes from Craig Groeschel

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

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

Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.

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

You can make excuses or you can make progress. But you can't make both.

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

God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.

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.

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

With God's help, I started to not only identify sin but also say no to it.

But the truth is, we find time for what's important to us.

Weird people love well.

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.

The problem with thinking "we go to church" is that it gives us a consumer mindset: I'm looking for a church that meets my needs. I need a good church that will help me.

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both.

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.

To train is to commit to developing strategic habits that equip you to do the right thing in the moment.

ongoing process, which is still happening today, of letting God's Word, empowered by God's Spirit, conform me to the image of Christ was God's calling to sanctification.

The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring, and glorifying God. After all, generosity is fundamental to God's nature.

What science is showing us today is what God told us through Solomon almost three thousand years ago: "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV). So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to make time for introspection and ask ourselves, "Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

He taught me that I could be a thinking person and still believe that God's word can stand the test of time and criticism of man, that science confirms Scripture, and that you don't have to duck hard questions. I learned that I didn't have to defensively protect God or His Word, but that I could truth both.

The road to committed faith is paved with personal abandonment and self-denial. Life ceases to be about us, and it begins to be all about God.

We aren't designed by God to seek the image of others; we are designed to seek him. When we spend time on social media focusing on how well others present their lives, we are, to use one of my father's baseball analogies, taking our eye off the ball.