Quotes from Craig Groeschel

Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond a couple together. Sex connects and fuses people together.

Ask yourself this question: at the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?

OUR LIVES ARE ALWAYS MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF OUR strongest thoughts. What we think shapes who we are.

Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.

Faith doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Faith means you don't let fear stop you.

Our fears matter. Because ultimately, our fears show how we're relying on our own efforts and not trusting in our Savior. The truth is we—you and I and everyone—are always inadequate. We're never enough. We're always weak.

I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can't do today.

If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.

He puts us here to make an eternal difference. He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them. He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart.

a lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.

This is God's universe; we just live in it. He doesn't owe us anything. We owe him everything. What did you make? Nothing. He made everything. For everything you have, you owe him.

But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To talk to Him. To worship and praise Him. To fellowship with other brothers and sisters.

If God has done what you think he should do, trust him. If God doesn't do what you think he should do, trust him. If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him. If your worst nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign. Believe he is good.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.

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

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

Rather than experiencing the richness of a dynamic, intimate relationship with the righteous One, you put God in a little box that you can check off your to-do list each week. By settling for rules and religion and feeling pretty good about how much you're doing for the church and those less fortunate, you become blinded to legalism and self-righteousness.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Grace. Changes. Everything. We don't bring anything. Jesus brings everything.

My pastor used to say you're either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.

Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.

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.