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Top 15 Chuck DeGroat Quotes (2025 Update)

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “In the upside-down economy of Jesus, those closest to the bottom are nearest to grace. Polished and put together, many of us live our lives without a real, palpable need for God. We preach grace. But we’re working really, really hard to avoid hitting bottom ourselves.”

1. “In the upside-down economy of Jesus, those closest to the bottom are nearest to grace. Polished and put together, many of us live our lives without a real, palpable need for God. We preach grace. But we’re working really, really hard to avoid hitting bottom ourselves.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “They enslave us with chains that are of our own making and yet that, paradoxically, are virtually beyond our control. Addiction also makes idolaters of us all, because it forces us to worship these objects of attachment, thereby preventing us from truly, freely loving God and one another.5.”

2. “They enslave us with chains that are of our own making and yet that, paradoxically, are virtually beyond our control. Addiction also makes idolaters of us all, because it forces us to worship these objects of attachment, thereby preventing us from truly, freely loving God and one another.5.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “Not only can you expect your narcissistic friends, lovers, and family members to want you to be perfect, but you can anticipate that they’ll externalize their own feelings of weakness by laying them onto you. If your partner is concerned that he or she looks tired, stressed, or messy, these concerns will translate into criticisms of how unkempt and fatigued you look.”21.”

3. “Not only can you expect your narcissistic friends, lovers, and family members to want you to be perfect, but you can anticipate that they’ll externalize their own feelings of weakness by laying them onto you. If your partner is concerned that he or she looks tired, stressed, or messy, these concerns will translate into criticisms of how unkempt and fatigued you look.”21.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “Wholeness can also be described as soulfulness, a life that’s centered, passionately engaged, open, creative, connected, and propelled by a sense of mission. It is this kind of wholeness that leaders need to cultivate in themselves and in those under their leadership.”

4. “Wholeness can also be described as soulfulness, a life that’s centered, passionately engaged, open, creative, connected, and propelled by a sense of mission. It is this kind of wholeness that leaders need to cultivate in themselves and in those under their leadership.”

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Chuck DeGroat Quote: “Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and the aroma of death to others. Dan Allender.”

5. “Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and the aroma of death to others. Dan Allender.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “We often talk about being “born again” as if we’ve left our past behind. But our past comes with us, often haunting us. Freedom’s trials can shatter our optimism, making us want to turn back to what was secure and familiar.”

6. “We often talk about being “born again” as if we’ve left our past behind. But our past comes with us, often haunting us. Freedom’s trials can shatter our optimism, making us want to turn back to what was secure and familiar.”

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Chuck DeGroat Quote: “Fauxnerability is a twisted form of vulnerability. It has the appearance of transparency but serves only to conceal one’s deepest struggles. A husband may talk generally about his sinfulness, but a significant addiction to pornography may be ignored.”

7. “Fauxnerability is a twisted form of vulnerability. It has the appearance of transparency but serves only to conceal one’s deepest struggles. A husband may talk generally about his sinfulness, but a significant addiction to pornography may be ignored.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “Those who are diagnosably narcissistic may be talented, charming, even inspiring, but they lack the capacity for self-awareness and self-evaluation, shunning humility for defensive self-protection. Christian psychologist Diane Langberg says of the narcissist, “He has many gifts but the gift of humility.”1.”

8. “Those who are diagnosably narcissistic may be talented, charming, even inspiring, but they lack the capacity for self-awareness and self-evaluation, shunning humility for defensive self-protection. Christian psychologist Diane Langberg says of the narcissist, “He has many gifts but the gift of humility.”1.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “I saw that narcissistic traits were often presented as strengths. Narcissism can be interpreted as confidence, strong leadership, clear vision, a thick skin.”

9. “I saw that narcissistic traits were often presented as strengths. Narcissism can be interpreted as confidence, strong leadership, clear vision, a thick skin.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “Indirect intimidation often occurs through isolation.”

10. “Indirect intimidation often occurs through isolation.”

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Chuck DeGroat Quote: “Ignoring you, the leader will draw in your peers, ingratiating them through approval and attention, all the while planting seeds of distrust about you. Too.”

11. “Ignoring you, the leader will draw in your peers, ingratiating them through approval and attention, all the while planting seeds of distrust about you. Too.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “They will often defer to the narcissist’s spiritual persona rather than her true character.”

12. “They will often defer to the narcissist’s spiritual persona rather than her true character.”

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Chuck DeGroat Quote: “When a system is not dominated by anxiety, everyone is free to speak truthfully, everyone is free to listen curiously.”

13. “When a system is not dominated by anxiety, everyone is free to speak truthfully, everyone is free to listen curiously.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “They are convincing. They are charming. They are certain. And tragically they are deemed credible.”

14. “They are convincing. They are charming. They are certain. And tragically they are deemed credible.”

— Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat Quote: “Though they cherished a belief that they were the only really honest church when it came to the seriousness of human sin, a supposed high-theology of individual sin masked the systemic sins of judgment, racism, misogyny, tribalism, passive-aggressive intimidation, arbitrary threats of discipline, and emotional and relational avoidance.”

15. “Though they cherished a belief that they were the only really honest church when it came to the seriousness of human sin, a supposed high-theology of individual sin masked the systemic sins of judgment, racism, misogyny, tribalism, passive-aggressive intimidation, arbitrary threats of discipline, and emotional and relational avoidance.”

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Chuck DeGroat Quote: “I’ve most often seen bullies in nondenominational contexts, and many are the founders, planters, and entrepreneurs who guard their churches and organizations like the extensions of the narcissistic ego they are.”

16. “I’ve most often seen bullies in nondenominational contexts, and many are the founders, planters, and entrepreneurs who guard their churches and organizations like the extensions of the narcissistic ego they are.”

— Chuck DeGroat

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