Top 200 Craig Groeschel Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Integrity starts from the inside out, not the outside in.”

— Craig Groeschel

102. “David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, “If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me.” Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God’s presence close by, intimately, through worship.”

— Craig Groeschel

103. “You don’t have to know what to say or what to do; just listen to the one who sent you.”

— Craig Groeschel

104. “Freedom lies in being bold. – Robert Frost.”

— Craig Groeschel

105. “God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.”

— Craig Groeschel

106. “Good things are not necessarily God things.”

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107. “If you’re not dead, you’re not done.”

— Craig Groeschel

108. “The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.”

— Craig Groeschel

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

— Craig Groeschel

110. “Grace. Changes. Everything. We don’t bring anything. Jesus brings everything.”

— Craig Groeschel

111. “Faith doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Faith means you don’t let fear stop you.”

— Craig Groeschel

112. “God doesn’t want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise.”

— Craig Groeschel

113. “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. – Henry David Thoreau.”

— Craig Groeschel

114. “It’s the things no one sees that result in the things everyone wants.”

— Craig Groeschel

115. “He desperately wants you to know Him. So many people believe in God, but they don’t really know Him. And because they don’t really know Him, they are lukewarm. The truth is, if you truly knew Him, you couldn’t be lukewarm or halfhearted. If you remain lukewarm, maybe it’s because you don’t know who God really is.”

— Craig Groeschel

116. “If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.”

— Craig Groeschel

117. “Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.”

— Craig Groeschel

118. “God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I’ve found that the things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don’t are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It’s our burden.”

— Craig Groeschel

119. “We were created not for earth but for eternity. We were created not to be Liked but to show love. We were created not to draw attention to ourselves but to give glory to God. We were created not to collect followers but to follow Christ.”

— Craig Groeschel

120. “Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.”

— Craig Groeschel

121. “A man with nothing to fight for quickly becomes a frustrated man, often without a clue as to why.”

— Craig Groeschel

122. “Instead of drifting away from God, you’ll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.”

— Craig Groeschel

123. “Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you’re tempted to tell me that yours doesn’t, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!”

— Craig Groeschel

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

— Craig Groeschel

125. “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.”

— Craig Groeschel

126. “If you honestly want to change, surround yourself with people who will help, people who believe you can do it.”

— Craig Groeschel

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

— Craig Groeschel

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

— Craig Groeschel

129. “It simply means that within every man, God has planted a divine desire to fight for righteousness.”

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130. “When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you do. The reason why you care and others don’t could be because God has aimed it directly at you.”

— Craig Groeschel

131. “The truth: you have what you need. Watch out for excuses. Whenever you’re tempted to whine about what you don’t have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything He wants you to do.”

— Craig Groeschel

132. “If you’re not ministering and using your gifts in the church, then something God wants done is being ignored.”

— Craig Groeschel

133. “As it goes with leaders, so it goes with the whole organization.”

— Craig Groeschel

134. “Honor, publicly, results in influence, privately.”

— Craig Groeschel

135. “Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it’s supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God’s goodness.”

— Craig Groeschel

136. “Don’t worry when you’re being persecuted for God, worry when you’re not.”

— Craig Groeschel

137. “If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective.”

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138. “Will we trust that God is good even when life is not? Our response to pain and challenges determines so much about our future. If we decide to trust, we will grow in our faith, deepen in our intimacy with God, and be conformed to the image of Christ. But if we allow our hearts to drift, we’ll wake up one day drowning in doubts, buried in burdens, and feeling far from the only one who can help us heal.”

— Craig Groeschel

139. “When you reach out to God humbly, you’ll find that He’s already reaching out to you.”

— Craig Groeschel

140. “He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.”

— Craig Groeschel

141. “Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.”

— Craig Groeschel

142. “The fact is, you can’t marry the best when you’re dating the runner-up. While you’re searching for Mr. Right, don’t settle for Mr. Right Now.”

— Craig Groeschel

143. “The way we respond to challenges determines the stories we’ll tell one day. Your decision to trust God in life’s storms may be one of the best ongoing choices you ever make.”

— Craig Groeschel

144. “Again, so many people think that they wouldn’t be going through their struggles if God were really with them. But that’s simply not the case. Having Jesus in the stern beside you doesn’t mean the storm won’t rock your boat. It just means the storm won’t sink you.”

— Craig Groeschel

145. “It’s easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.”

— Craig Groeschel

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

— Craig Groeschel

147. “While it’s easy to believe the worst, God wants you to believe the best. He never promises a trouble-free life of leisure, but he does promise never to leave you and always to love you.”

— Craig Groeschel

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

— Craig Groeschel

149. “The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.”

— Craig Groeschel

150. “Suffocate the flames of envy with a blanket of gratitude.”

— Craig Groeschel