Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Steven Furtick

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.

You can't fulfill your calling in your comfort zone!

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.

Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.

If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.

The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.

I can’t expect God’s blessing on my work unless I do it God’s way.

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

It is the experience of love that enables us to change.

Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations.

God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing!

The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.

Nothing gets stronger without resistance.

God sets boundaries before He gives blessing.

Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that.

The next time you lose your momentum in daily life as you're chasing after God's best for you, don't give up and conclude that it's over. The greater life hasn't ended for you. It's only out of sight under the waters of the ordinary. And God can resurface it, supernaturally, as many times as it takes. As many times as you're willing.

Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil.

My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.

Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.

Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.

When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life.

It shouldn't freak you out to realize that God's eyes are on you. Because He doesn't see you through eyes of disapproval or disappointment. His presence is not a sign of condemnation. It's actually an invitation. God is present with you, through His Holy Spirit, because He intends to uproot you from the tyranny of the familiar, shatter the monotonous life you've had. And take you on an adventure.

If your problem is too big for you, it’s just the right size for God.

You can't be grateful for something you feel entitled to.

I dont believe God's called me to survive the world but to change it for His glory.

Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.

Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.

The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.

Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear - it means we refuse to be overcome by it.

If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.

The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time.

If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God.

God cannot bless who you pretend to be

Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.

Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance.

If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.

The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?

When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.

Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!

What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

We thank Him for everything before we ask Him for anything!

The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.

Failure isn't final until you quit!!

God will arrange every experience in your life to serve His purpose.

Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of Bible studies because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't teach doctrine because it gets in the way of evangelism. If you want to be fed God's word or have the Bible explained to you then you are a fat lazy Christian and you need to shut up and get to work or you need to leave this church because we ONLY do evangelism.

I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.

The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!

Most of us are so focused on what we don't have that we're blinded to what we do have.

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.