Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Greg Laurie - Page 2

God's judgement begins to fall on the Earth.

As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.

To me, the model example of how to share your faith is Jesus with the woman at the well in John 4. He was patient with her. He took time for her. To some degree, she was kind of disrespectful to Him at first, initially kind of blowing off what he said and blowing off what he was saying to her. But then, as it continued on, she began to understand and ultimately believed.

Giving is a responsibility. It is an opportunity. And it is a blessing for every follower of Jesus Christ.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.

What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.

Ultimately, we know that the way a person finds salvation, the way a person comes into a relationship with God is by admitting their sin and turning to Christ. So, I think because they have done religious ritual A or B or C and think that is sufficient and that's all that is expected, now religion has become a barrier instead of a bridge and gives a false sense of satisfaction.

I preach as a dying man to dying men.

Every Christian needs to be informed, every Christian needs to register and every Christian should absolutely vote.

The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.

I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem.

I think we have people that are not even leaving their comfort zone to engage people with the gospel. I don't know if you can be overzealous, but you can be unwise in the way you do it.

I have to impose my belief to share with a person.

We need people who will strictly interpret the law and not be promoting an agenda, as is the danger right now with some members of the Supreme Court.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

I do believe that we are living in the last days. I know this has been said before but there are events happening in our world right now that, to me, are what we call signs of the times.

Conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit.

I don't think the problem that we have today is overzealous believers. I think the problem we have is underzealous believers.

Millions of people are going to come to Jesus.

The Lord will remove the church but the Holy Spirit will still be working on planet Earth, bringing people into the kingdom.

There God tells us exactly what is going to happen and scripture tells us that there is going to come a world leader who will initially bring overtures of peace. He will help the Jewish people rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. He will have a new economic system where you don't buy or sell without his mark. Initially, for some, it will look like a good deal because there will be peace, as I said.

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.

The Bible says there are things that we should look for that signal the last days and one of them of course is the scattering and regathering of the nation of Israel, which we all know happened in 1948 when Israel was declared a nation.

The scripture teaches that he who now restrains will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way.

The Bible speaks of the sense of commission, which is doing what you should not do, instead of omission, which is not doing what you should do. It says in the book of James that if you know to do good and don't do it, it is sin.

We are supposed to share the gospel. So, I believe it can actually be a sinful thing to not do it.

I don't think we have to impose or pressure in anyway but I do think we have to engage people and try to help them to understand what the gospel even is.

It is going to get worse before it gets better.

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.

When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.

When I get up to speak tonight, it's kind of a monologue. When I am talking with someone one-on-one, it's a dialogue. I ask them questions; I listen; I respond appropriately. I think we can do it in a loving way.

I believe that the work of the Holy Spirit, through the church, will continue on.

I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.

The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't a peripheral issue; it's foundational. It's bedrock. It's the bottom line.

I have never received a heavenly dispatch. Rather, I have found that divine guidance often comes as a result of taking steps of faith. And God not only has His will, but He also has His timing for each and every situation. The Bible tells us, 'He has made everything beautiful in its time'