Top 160 Steven Furtick Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I will not let the discouragement of what I’m going through make me forget the benefits of belonging to the God who has been so good to me. He has saved me, blessed me, forgiven me, restored me, satisfied me, healed me, crowned me, and renewed me.”

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102. “When the devil wanted to lure Adam and Eve away from their true identity in God, he did it through the power of insinuation.”

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103. “Enemy can’t do a thing to diminish God’s promises – that ability is decidedly beyond the limits of his power. So instead he lures you into places where your perspective of God’s promises will be diminished.”

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104. “When you discover who God is, you discover who you are. And when you discover who you are, you no longer have to struggle with the insecurity and self-promotion that define much of society. You no longer have to strain to measure up, to qualify. You are free to be yourself.”

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105. “If you think you have to swap unworthy for worthy, you will bang your forehead against a self-created wall for the rest of your life, and you’ll never get any closer to your goal. But once you realize that God’s acceptance overrules your unworthiness, you can instantly find peace.”

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106. “God is able to stir up your spirit, pour out his presence, and reveal his glory in your family, business or community.”

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107. “The less I can depend on circumstances to define my identity, the more I must look to the Lord to reinforce His thoughts concerning me and to impress them into my heart until I respond as if it’s second nature:.”

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108. “Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.”

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109. “Maybe God wants to do something beyond your abilities, and he is far less intimidated by your failures and limits than you are.”

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110. “But at the bottom, you see that the same Rock that holds up your life in clear skies is supporting your future when everything around you shakes and rocks and reels.”

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111. “When you realize that God is the only One who really has any lasting reward to give, He becomes the only One whose approval you desperately need. You can rest in the fact that you have it – in full measure – because the work of God’s perfect Son, Jesus, secured your acceptance the moment you placed your faith in Him. Before you ever win or lose, God has turned His face toward you. He has chosen you. And He is pleased.”

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112. “Seizing God’s vision means deciding that you will not spend another day surviving your work environment, family dynamic, or dysfunctional situation.”

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113. “But sometimes, even though the life you have is good, you’re haunted by a sense that on the other side of the fence that marks off the life you’re living is a greater place that God is preparing for you.”

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114. “Audacity is not an activity. Audacity is an approach.”

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115. “It’s resolving to live with the mind-set that declares, My joy is not determined by what happens to me but by what Christ is doing in me and through me.”

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116. “If you’re going to ask God to do something impossible in your life, you’ve got to have some clarity about what you’re asking for.”

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117. “Could it be that God intends for us to have the same kind of audacious faith-the kind of faith that dares to believe God for the impossible-as a normal way of life?”

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118. “I had learned over time that the gospel isn’t about what God wants from us but what he wants for us.”

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119. “But this is the starting point, or – more likely – the starting-over point. You can’t go any further until you realize that the worth of your activity for Christ cannot rise above your understanding of your identity in Him. And there is unlimited power in the Word of God. Power to overcome the warped ways we see ourselves. And power to reassemble the image of God that we haven’t always reflected but have already received.”

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120. “Audacious vision never cowers in the darkness.”

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121. “When we allow our thoughts to go unchecked, a steady drip of lies cements the wrong patterns within our minds, building a Berlin Wall of bad beliefs.”

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122. “Whatever the what-if is, as quickly as I can, I must assess the nature of the fear. What, specifically, am I so afraid of?”

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123. “Is it possible that when we’re not getting the affirmation or confirmation we desire, it’s because God doesn’t want our faith to rest in affirmation we can feel? In these times could it be that He’s at work on a deeper level, teaching us to rely on His character rather than our performance?”

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124. “How are you defining the truth of who you are? By whose standards? What subtle lies has the serpent been weaving into your understanding of God’s intentions for you? How have they been corrupting your identity? What is that corruption costing you? Peace? Joy? The ability to connect with others who need you to be there for them? The ability to hear from God about His direction for your life?”

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125. “By learning to distinguish between the way God speaks and the way the Enemy speaks, we move toward words of life and grow in the ways of God.”

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126. “I hear the things God has spoken about me, and I want so badly to believe them. I want to believe that I’m filled with the Spirit, as He says I am. But if I’m filled with the Spirit, why am I so often led by my selfishness? Why are my motives constantly compromised by socially acceptable expressions of envy and subtle manifestations of greed? If what God says about me is right, why can’t I live the way I claim to believe?”

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127. “God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.”

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128. “God is your very present help in times of trouble, and each one of your days has been ordained.5.”

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129. “What is the fear of God, then? It is being terrified of ever being outside of His protection.”

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130. “We constantly analyze and summarize each other. We compare people to our standards – spoken or unspoken – to see how they measure up. Then we accept them or reject them; we praise them or criticize them; we revere them or ridicule them. We all secretly administer exams in the university of our own opinions.”

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131. “The Enemy does his best work in the darkness of our ignorance and speculation. He hammers away with what-ifs in the workshop of thoughts we are too afraid to face.”

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132. “What I struggle with is believing that God loves me, not just because He has to, but also because He wants to.”

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133. “The people who accomplish the most astounding things for God’s glory aren’t the people who feel the least fear. Often they’re the ones who deal with the most intense fear. But instead of letting that fear disable their dreams, they start increasing their capacity for faith. They act on the part of God’s direction they do understand. And they leave the rest up to him.”

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134. “When you give all you’ve got for the cause of the One who gave it all to you in the first place, the effects of your investment will literally reach the heavens.”

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135. “The only opportunity the chatterbox ever has to download lies into our heads is if we have allowed it first to delete the memory of who we are in Christ.”

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136. “Also, sometimes perhaps we stand by passively, waiting for God to fix the issues that He’s called us to fight in His strength. If we’re going to overcome the thoughts that hold us back, first we have to give up the hope that they’ll ever go away. Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.”

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137. “When you have a dream in your heart, but no earthly idea how to make it happen, keeping your faith intact is a full-time job.”

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138. “The only thing we ever have to be afraid of is that we would ever live one moment of one day outside the protection of the One who can command the wind and the waves to be still.”

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139. “Our lives can be a bit like that. We can spend so much time and energy trying to be like other people that we never let the world hear the real us. What’s worse, we never hear the real us. What.”

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140. “You can’t be afraid to stare into the pupils of the possibility of pain and see it for what it is.”

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141. “I’m determined to take ground and win big for the kingdom of God. I’m unapologetic about my mission to change the world for the glory of Jesus. I want to be a Joshua in my generation.”

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142. “God performs the most impressive feats through the most unimpressive people.”

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143. “In the yard my actions didn’t reflect God’s love. But they didn’t weaken it or make it go away, either. Because it’s not a love based on what I do. It’s a love based on what Jesus has done.”

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144. “Our purpose statement is: So that people far from God will be filled with life in Christ.”

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145. “The first truth is this: When it comes to hearing God’s voice, identity always comes before activity. And that’s a spiritual secret the chatterbox was hoping you’d never discover.”

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146. “When you have that affirmation from someone who knows you completely and loves you anyway, the world doesn’t have a medal big enough or shiny enough to tempt you. The spirit of comparison and competition is broken, because you know you have a higher calling.”

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147. “Remember, God’s name is I AM. So anytime we take his name and fill in the third word with things that are contradictory to what God says about us, we are taking his name in vain. When.”

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148. “At some point we all have to get over our pride and own our deficiencies and dependencies.”

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149. “The key is training your mind to know the difference between the Enemy’s threats and God’s whispers – and conditioning your heart to respond accordingly.”

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150. “If God wants us to hear and know and obey His voice, why does He whisper?”

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