Quotes from Craig Groeschel

No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

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.

When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.

We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals I'm available to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding.

If you don't handle the hurt properly, their sin becomes a catalyst for your own.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority, you create leaders

the strongest man is not the one who lifts the most weight but the one who has the most faith.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

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.

Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.

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).

Good intentions center around us. We say, "Here's what I would like to be different about my life." Good intentions are me-centered. God intentions, on the other hand, are centered on what our Father wants for us. Our intentions tend to focus on what we think we want, but God intentions focus on what he knows we need.

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you're tempted to tell me that yours doesn't, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

If someone has been trying to show you something about yourself and you continue to fight it, maybe it's time to acknowledge that you might be deceived.

You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.