If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

— Craig Groeschel

If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.

— Craig Groeschel

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on Capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV.

— Craig Groeschel

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on Capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

— Craig Groeschel

If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.

— Craig Groeschel

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God’s anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with ‘it’. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

— Craig Groeschel

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.

— Craig Groeschel

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

— Craig Groeschel

I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.

— Craig Groeschel

In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.

— Craig Groeschel