Craig Groeschel Quotes
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It's almost impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends.
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If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.
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The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.
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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.
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What we value determines what we do.
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God had to do something IN me before He could do something THROUGH me.
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In each big decision, we'll always make them by faith.
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Most of us could stop doing something that's hindering our passion for Jesus and effectiveness in following him.
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Scripture teaches us that we should trust God and not lean on our own wisdom or understanding. To do this, we have to strive to know God intimately, walking by faith and not by sight. This may not be easy at first, but it starts with simple obedience.
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Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
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We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.
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Those who have it stick with what brings it.
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Offer God what you have and trust Him to give you what you need.
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Lord, use me today, use me for your glory, make me bold, stir me up, give me eyes to see the needs of those I work with, give me a heart sensitive to those who are hurting, give me a prompting of the Spirit to minister to those who are around me.
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If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.
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God's Word instructs us, teaches us, guides us, encourages us, convicts us, and helps conform us to the image of Christ.
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You don't have to know what to say or what to do; just listen to the one who sent you.
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Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.
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Personally, I hate flossing. So this is the first discipline I quit when I am stressed. But if I stop this one important habit, then I might be tempted to cheat on my eating plan, stay up too late, or skip my Bible reading. If I stay faithful in doing something that I don't enjoy, I tend to believe that I'm disciplined. Therefore, I eat better, go to bed on time, and stay in God's Word.
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I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.
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You see, religion alone can only take a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about Jesus
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You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are.
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I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we’re really committed to Him. But what if it’s designed as God’s way of giving us what’s best for us?
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Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God's responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those we love, trust him as our provider, and trust his sovereign plan, that gives us the foundation to step out in faith. We can trust that he'll always be faithful.
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When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.
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If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.
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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.
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If you are not dead, you are not done.
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I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.
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To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing
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