Greg Laurie quotes

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through
-- Greg Laurie

#Obstacles #Lord #Difficulty

Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.
-- Greg Laurie

#Blessing #Devil

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.
-- Greg Laurie

#Earth #Knowing God

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.
-- Greg Laurie

#Life #Choices #Pleasing God

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.
-- Greg Laurie

#Men #Doe #Miserable

The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.
-- Greg Laurie

#Settling #Pulpit #Score

Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.
-- Greg Laurie

#Jesus #Weather #Followers

The next time the devil tempts you to think that you are not worthy to approach God, here is what I advise: Agree. Say, “You are right. I am not worthy to approach God. I never was worthy to approach God. I never will be worthy to approach God. My access to God’s presence is not based on my worthiness, it is based on what Christ did for me on the cross.
-- Greg Laurie

#Thinking #Devil #Next

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

#Life #Christian #Car

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.
-- Greg Laurie

#People #Harmony #Friction

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

#Wisdom #Thinking #Way

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

#Giving #Heaven #Desire

Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.
-- Greg Laurie

#Steps #Crosses

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

#God #Christian #Eye

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.
-- Greg Laurie

#Jesus #Church #World

Jesus took His place in a manger so that we might have a home in Heaven.
-- Greg Laurie

#Jesus #Home #Heaven

New believers are the lifeblood of the church. We can either evangelize or fossilize.
-- Greg Laurie

#Church #Believer

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

#Needs #May #Accepting

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

#Church #Alive #Praying

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

#Faith #Real #Hardship

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

#Faith #Believe #Use

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

#Faith #Commitment #Want

Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.
-- Greg Laurie

#Country #Jesus #Cities

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

#Issues #Church #Events

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.
-- Greg Laurie

#Perspective #Heaven #Earth

Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.
-- Greg Laurie

#People #Heaven #Good People

Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.
-- Greg Laurie

#Prayer #Answers #Vehicle

Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.
-- Greg Laurie

#Heaven #Earth #Way

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

#Wise #Real #Men

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

#God #Christian #Different

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

#God #Christian #Waiting

Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.
-- Greg Laurie

#Denial #Delay #Praying

We can trust God's heart even when we can't trace His path.
-- Greg Laurie

#Heart #Path #Trust In God

If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.
-- Greg Laurie

#Encouragement #Blessed #People

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

#Faith #Doe #Good Work

He who rejects the Bible has nothing to live by. Neither does he have anything to die by.
-- Greg Laurie

#Christian #Doe #Live By

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.
-- Greg Laurie

#Jesus #Kids #Singing

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

#Sheep #People #Found

Giving is a responsibility. It is an opportunity. And it is a blessing for every follower of Jesus Christ.
-- Greg Laurie

#Jesus #Responsibility #Blessing

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

#Encouragement #Prayer #Thank God

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

#Real #Sunset #Views