Best 230 quotes of Craig Groeschel on MyQuotes

A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. Whenever my organization starts to settle I believe I have to lift my lid, my capacity I have to think and act in a different way to achieve different results.

As it goes with leaders, so it goes with the whole organization.

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

Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That's good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.

Because my life was changed by God's Word, I love every organization that helps people know him through his Word.

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

Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

Boldness is behavior born out of belief.

Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.

Don't insult God with safe living and small thinking.

Don't resent, fear, or judge the next generation, believe in them.

Don't worry when you're being persecuted for God, worry when you're not.

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

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

Gentleman, God created you with the heart of a warrior. Until there’s something you’re willing to die for, you can’t truly live.

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

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

God has blessed me with more than I need. I'm rich. I will not trust in riches but in Him who richly provides. Because I have more, I will give more and do more.

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

God's will is clear about many things. We're to be holy. I like the metaphor that his Word is a lamp to our feet. A lamp may help guide my next one or two steps, but it's not a crystal ball into the future.

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

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

How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

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?

I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

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

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

If you are not dead, you are not done.

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

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

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

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

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

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

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.

In each big decision, we'll always make them by faith.

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

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.

I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.

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.

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.

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

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

Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.

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.