Quotes from Craig Groeschel

To those of you who are leading LifeGroups, I want you to know, you are the heroes of our mission.

Because my life was changed by God's Word, I love every organization that helps people know him through his Word.

God could have programmed us as robots to do whatever he tells us, but then we'd never have the freedom to love and worship him.

It's not easy to trust in a God you can't see. That's why so many want God to prove himself so we can trust him. In reality, God wants us to trust him so he can prove himself.

How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

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

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

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

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

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.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

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.

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we've done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don't even deserve to.

Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.

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

As you'll recall, what you believe — about who you are and who God is — determines how you behave. If you believe everybody is going to criticize you, you'll behave cautiously. If you believe you're probably going to fail, you're going to venture out tentatively. If, however, you believe that the one true Lord God is calling you, empowering you, leading you, and equipping you, then you will live boldly. Why? Because boldness is behavior born of belief.

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.