Quotes from Craig Groeschel

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. — Henry David Thoreau

It's easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.

Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you.

When you start to avoid what hurts you, what happens? Over time, your spiritual side grows stronger. And your selfish side starts to die.

You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.

But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.

Wisdom is all about the simple, often tiny, obvious things, done consistently, one at a time.

When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.

Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.

It's the things no one sees that result in the things everyone wants.

I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.

Again, so many people think that they wouldn't be going through their struggles if God were really with them. But that's simply not the case. Having Jesus in the stern beside you doesn't mean the storm won't rock your boat. It just means the storm won't sink you.

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound difference in countless lives.

He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.

While it's easy to believe the worst, God wants you to believe the best. He never promises a trouble-free life of leisure, but he does promise never to leave you and always to love you.

Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?

Rather, we are who God says we are: his children. We are forgivable. We are changeable. We are capable. We are moldable. And we are bound by the limitless love of God.

When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

That place that I had been most sure that I was right was the place that I was most wrong.