Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Craig Groeschel

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.

Sometimes God guides by what He withholds, rather than what He provides.

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

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

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

It's almost impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

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.

If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming.

Offer God what you have and trust Him to give you what you need.

The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

To step toward your destiny, you may have to step away from your security.

True loyalty is proven not proclaimed.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

What you pray for reflects what you believe about God.

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God had to do something IN me before He could do something THROUGH me.

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

God's Word instructs us, teaches us, guides us, encourages us, convicts us, and helps conform us to the image of Christ.

The clearer your vision becomes, the easier it is to guard what God calls you to do.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fears!

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.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people.

There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.

If you're not dead...you're not done.

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

Integrity starts from the inside out, not the outside in.

If your vision doesn’t compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small.

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.

All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose.

When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard!

It's not easy to trust in a God you can't see. That's why so many want God to prove himself so we can trust him. In reality, God wants us to trust him so he can prove himself.

The things we worry about the most are the hints we trust God with the least.

Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

Being consumed by what people think of you is the fastest way to forget what God thinks of you.

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

If the Devil can’t make us really bad, then he’ll try to make us really busy.

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.

Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

When focus increases, options decrease.

You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are.

You are only as strong as you are honest.

Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

If you are not ready to face opposition then you are not ready to be used by God.