Quotes from Craig Groeschel

Good habits are difficult to start because the pain comes now and the payoff is in the future. Bad habits are difficult to stop because the payoff comes now and the pain is in the future.

If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our hearts, starting with our eyes.

When we truly know God, rather than living ashamed of our past of doubting God's love for us, we can daily enjoy his grace and unconditional love and acceptance. As our faith and prayer life grows, we'll see his goodness—even in our trials—and grow to forgive as he has freely forgiven us.

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share.

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

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.

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

Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

You do what you do because of what you think of you.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?