Top 60 Greg Laurie Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.”

— Greg Laurie

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2. “God’s plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don’t be afraid of God’s will, even if it’s different from yours.”

— Greg Laurie

3. “When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God’s finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven.”

— Greg Laurie

4. “Loving God more than anyone or anything else is the very foundation of being a disciple. If you want to live your Christian life to its fullest, then love Jesus more than anyone or anything else.”

— Greg Laurie

5. “There’s a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.”

— Greg Laurie

6. “God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can’t take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.”

— Greg Laurie

7. “The real message of Christmas is not the gifts that we give to each other. Rather, it is a reminder of the gift that God has given to each of us. It is the only gift that truly keeps on giving.”

— Greg Laurie

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8. “Jesus took His place in a manger so that we might have a home in Heaven.”

— Greg Laurie

9. “Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.”

— Greg Laurie

10. “If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through.”

— Greg Laurie

11. “God rewards the person who is diligent. And for those who will take time in their day to seek the Lord, for those who will take time to read His Word, for those who will take time to wait upon Him, He will reveal His truths to them.”

— Greg Laurie

12. “We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us that gives us a certain homesickness, a desire to be there.”

— Greg Laurie

13. “God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.”

— Greg Laurie

14. “Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.”

— Greg Laurie

15. “Heaven is not for good people, it’s for forgiven people.”

— Greg Laurie

16. “You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.”

— Greg Laurie

17. “Let’s commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.”

— Greg Laurie

18. “And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.”

— Greg Laurie

19. “The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.”

— Greg Laurie

20. “What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.”

— Greg Laurie

21. “So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.”

— Greg Laurie

22. “Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers.”

— Greg Laurie

23. “The message of the season is not, “Let it snow” or even, “Let us shop.” The real message of Christmas is, “Let us worship.” That is what the wise men came to do. And that is what we should be doing as well.”

— Greg Laurie

24. “Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.”

— Greg Laurie

25. “Giving is a responsibility. It is an opportunity. And it is a blessing for every follower of Jesus Christ.”

— Greg Laurie

26. “We can trust God’s heart even when we can’t trace His path.”

— Greg Laurie

27. “He who rejects the Bible has nothing to live by. Neither does he have anything to die by.”

— Greg Laurie

28. “If you have faith in God, if you believe that God can use you, if you are willing to take a step of faith here and there, then God can do incredible things through you.”

— Greg Laurie

29. “The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.”

— Greg Laurie

30. “Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.”

— Greg Laurie

31. “Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.”

— Greg Laurie

32. “The full concept of discipleship includes sharing our faith, leading people to Christ, and helping them to mature in their faith. But somewhere along the line, the church has separated evangelism from discipleship.”

— Greg Laurie

33. “You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.”

— Greg Laurie

34. “Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.”

— Greg Laurie

35. “Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.”

— Greg Laurie

36. “As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, ‘Thank God He did not answer my prayers’ or ‘Thank God He answered my prayers,’ whichever the case may be.”

— Greg Laurie

37. “The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn’t a peripheral issue; it’s foundational. It’s bedrock. It’s the bottom line.”

— Greg Laurie

38. “New believers are the lifeblood of the church. We can either evangelize or fossilize.”

— Greg Laurie

39. “Like the prodigal’s father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn’t want to leave us that way. God will change us.”

— Greg Laurie

40. “I have never received a heavenly dispatch. Rather, I have found that divine guidance often comes as a result of taking steps of faith. And God not only has His will, but He also has His timing for each and every situation. The Bible tells us, ‘He has made everything beautiful in its time’”

— Greg Laurie

41. “We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.”

— Greg Laurie

42. “God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.”

— Greg Laurie

43. “Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.”

— Greg Laurie

44. “Billy Graham once said, “We are the Bibles the world is reading. We are the creeds the world is needing. We are the sermons the world is heeding.”

— Greg Laurie

45. “What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can’t we? Let’s remember to thank Him.”

— Greg Laurie

46. “Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.”

— Greg Laurie

47. “If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.”

— Greg Laurie

48. “I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.”

— Greg Laurie

49. “A poll by researcher George Barna revealed that about 25 percent of the adults in the United States would go to church if a friend would just invite them. Barna.”

— Greg Laurie

50. “Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.”

— Greg Laurie