Top 60 J. D. Greear Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.”

— J. D. Greear

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2. “The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.”

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3. “Repentance is belief in action.”

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4. “If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.”

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5. “My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.”

— J. D. Greear

6. “Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.”

— J. D. Greear

7. “Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.”

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8. “In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.”

— J. D. Greear

9. “Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I’ll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.”

— J. D. Greear

10. “God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.”

— J. D. Greear

11. “It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.”

— J. D. Greear

12. “When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.”

— J. D. Greear

13. “As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,“Stop sinning”, it says,“Behold your God”.”

— J. D. Greear

14. “Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts.”

— J. D. Greear

15. “At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.”

— J. D. Greear

16. “We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.”

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17. “When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.”

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18. “Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.”

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19. “The vibrant Christian life is a union of clarity in the Word and openness to the Spirit.”

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20. “Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.”

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21. “Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.”

— J. D. Greear

22. “We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.”

— J. D. Greear

23. “Don’t feel your way into your beliefs; believe your way into your feelings.”

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24. “The Gospel Prayer “In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.” “Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy.” “As You have been to me, so I will be to others.” “As I pray, I’ll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.”

— J. D. Greear

25. “Repentance Is Not the Absence of Struggle; It Is the Absence of Settled Defiance.”

— J. D. Greear

26. “Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God’s absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.”

— J. D. Greear

27. “The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.”

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28. “True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.”

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29. “In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.”

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30. “Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.”

— J. D. Greear

31. “We shouldn’t be waiting for voices when we already have verses.”

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32. “Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.”

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33. “What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?”

— J. D. Greear

34. “Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.”

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35. “Whatever you’re good at, do it well for the glory of God, and do it somewhere strategic for the mission of God.”

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36. “Satan’s primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria.”

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37. “God steers moving ships – ships driven by the winds of worship, gratefulness, love to God for what he’s done, and compassion for those he cares about.”

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38. “The Christian life is a call to risk. You either live with risk or waste your life.”

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39. “True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.”

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40. “Satan’s most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.”

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41. “Abiding in Jesus means understanding that His acceptance of us is the same regardless of the amount of spiritual fruit we have produced.”

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42. “Peter Drucker says that the worst kind of failure in business is success in the things that don’t matter.”

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43. “The Spirit inside of us is greater than even Jesus beside us.”

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44. “Most people hope that they are “good enough” to earn God’s approval, to get on His “A-list.” Comparatively speaking, they think, their sins have not been that bad. So as long as God grades on the curve they’ll be fine. But this is direct defiance of “the testimony” God has given about Jesus. If we could have been “good enough,” would Jesus really have had to die? What kind of God would have done that to Jesus if there were another way?”

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45. “His love is the soil in which all the fruits of the Spirit grow. When our roots abide there, then joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control grow naturally in our hearts.”

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46. “Every great risk in God’s name begins with confidence in the goodness and trustworthiness of God.”

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47. “A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.”

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48. “God doesn’t need you! Never has. Never will. For anything. Ever.”

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49. “In the same way, there are points you can never pass spiritually until you are confident that Jesus will support the full weight of your soul. There are sacrifices you’ll never make and commands you’ll never obey unless you are convinced of their eternal value.”

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50. “Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.”

— J. D. Greear