Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Greg Laurie

Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.

Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

If you have faith in God, if you believe that God can use you, if you are willing to take a step of faith here and there, then God can do incredible things through you.

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Sometimes, God is going to have you sow a seed. Sometimes, God is going to have you water a seed that someone else sows. Sometimes, God is going to have you reap where others have sowed and watered.

God rewards the person who is diligent. And for those who will take time in their day to seek the Lord, for those who will take time to read His Word, for those who will take time to wait upon Him, He will reveal His truths to them.

I have read the last page of the Bible and I know for sure that we win in the end.

The churches that are growing and thriving are churches that I would call evangelical and orthodox for the most part in their beliefs. They are churches that tend to evangelize ... and encourage their people to share their faith. These are the churches that are actually growing. The ones that are shrinking are the ones that are compromising and watering down what the word of God says.

I don't know when the end of the world is, but there are people that I speak to every night, the end of their world could be tomorrow because we don't know when life will end.

God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.

Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.

My objective is to build a bridge to a person, to establish a dialogue.

You will be tested as a leader....You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.

When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God's finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven.

We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us that gives us a certain homesickness, a desire to be there.

I appreciate zeal and energy and passion but in our zeal, we just need to do it in a loving way and do it in a compassionate way, not share our faith in a robotic or mechanical way, but interact with the person, listen to them, and respond appropriately to their questions.

We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.

The real message of Christmas is not the gifts that we give to each other. Rather, it is a reminder of the gift that God has given to each of us. It is the only gift that truly keeps on giving.

Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.

Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.

Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.

He who rejects the Bible has nothing to live by. Neither does he have anything to die by.

The Bible says that the servant of the Lord must be patient. Not everyone believes immediately.

Loving God more than anyone or anything else is the very foundation of being a disciple. If you want to live your Christian life to its fullest, then love Jesus more than anyone or anything else.

Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.

God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.

If you want to win some, you have to be winsome - be nice, be friendly and then appropriately apply the gospel.

New believers are the lifeblood of the church. We can either evangelize or fossilize.

You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."

The message of the season is not, "Let it snow" or even, "Let us shop." The real message of Christmas is, "Let us worship." That is what the wise men came to do. And that is what we should be doing as well.

The Bible says that in the last days, there would be false teachers. And, it also says that in the End Times that... there would be an apostasy.

Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.

I think there is always new people that have never heard the gospel before that need to have it because the gospel - which is the death, resurrection of Christ and the message of his forgiveness - is the only hope for a person knowing that they will go to Heaven and then finding the meaning and purpose they search for in life.

The next time the devil tempts you to think that you are not worthy to approach God, here is what I advise: Agree. Say, “You are right. I am not worthy to approach God. I never was worthy to approach God. I never will be worthy to approach God. My access to God’s presence is not based on my worthiness, it is based on what Christ did for me on the cross.

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can't take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.

Jesus took His place in a manger so that we might have a home in Heaven.

You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.

It seems like things are upside down [in America] as we see right declared as wrong, and wrong as right. God is not pointing His finger at the Supreme Court, or the White House, or the Capitol. If you are a Christian, He is looking at you and at me to humble ourselves, pray, and seek God's face. He expects us to take action.

The Bible says that in the last days, there will be people in our churches who are not true believers, among other things. Because of watered-down messages and compromise, people will feel comfortable in certain churches because they are never confronted with their sin. I believe my job as a pastor is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

The Bible says that in the last days that it will be like labor pains. As a woman is ready to give birth, the labor pains get closer and closer together. That's what I think we are seeing that says we are in, maybe now, the last hours because the events are getting closer together.

Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.

Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers.

We can trust God's heart even when we can't trace His path.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time. I think if we don't deliver this message, it's negligence of the highest order. It would be like if you were walking down the street and a house was on fire and you heard screams coming from inside and you just kept walking. How irresponsible is that? At the very least, call 911 but better yet, you might run in and try to save the people.

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through

Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.

Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.

Every Christian is called to preach the gospel. We need to take the commission seriously.