Craig Groeschel

“Normal people attempt countless goals with limited success. Weird people focus on just one God-given objective with tremendous results.”

“Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.”

“You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.”

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

“You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got today provided for. And probably tomorrow too. Maybe even into next winter, with all the food socked away in that extra freezer in the garage.”

“Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.”

“If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.”

“Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.”

“If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV.”

“Weird people love well.”

“Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.”

“Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.”

“To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.”

“If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders”

“Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.”

“The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say it again. Prayer is simply communicating with God. That one uncomplicated thought began to revolutionize my whole prayer life. What is communication? It's transferring a thought, feeling, emotion, or idea to another person. So prayer is giving God my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas, by whatever means works. It doesn't have to be formal. It doesn't have to be long and dry. It's simply communicating.”

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

“Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.”

“If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.”

“Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.”