Quotes from Craig Groeschel

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we've done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don't even deserve to.

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.

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

As you'll recall, what you believe — about who you are and who God is — determines how you behave. If you believe everybody is going to criticize you, you'll behave cautiously. If you believe you're probably going to fail, you're going to venture out tentatively. If, however, you believe that the one true Lord God is calling you, empowering you, leading you, and equipping you, then you will live boldly. Why? Because boldness is behavior born of belief.

No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

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.

When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.

We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals I'm available to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding.