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“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
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“Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Blessing #Devil
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“You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Earth #Knowing God
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“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
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“The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Men #Doe #Miserable
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“The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Settling #Pulpit #Score
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“Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Jesus #Weather #Followers
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Steps #Crosses
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“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
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“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
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“Jesus took His place in a manger so that we might have a home in Heaven.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Jesus #Home #Heaven
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“New believers are the lifeblood of the church. We can either evangelize or fossilize.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Church #Believer
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Perspective #Heaven #Earth
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“Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.”
-- Greg Laurie
#People #Heaven #Good People
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“Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Prayer #Answers #Vehicle
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“Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.”
-- Greg Laurie
#Heaven #Earth #Way
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“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
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“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
