Greg Laurie Quotes

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

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.

Every Christian needs to be informed, every Christian needs to register and every Christian should absolutely vote.

The Bible says that in the last days, there would be false teachers. And, it also says that in the End Times that... there would be an apostasy.

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.

I think we have people that are not even leaving their comfort zone to engage people with the gospel. I don't know if you can be overzealous, but you can be unwise in the way you do it.

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

I have never received a heavenly dispatch. Rather, I have found that divine guidance often comes as a result of taking steps of faith. And God not only has His will, but He also has His timing for each and every situation. The Bible tells us, 'He has made everything beautiful in its time'

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

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

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.

I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.

To me, the model example of how to share your faith is Jesus with the woman at the well in John 4. He was patient with her. He took time for her. To some degree, she was kind of disrespectful to Him at first, initially kind of blowing off what he said and blowing off what he was saying to her. But then, as it continued on, she began to understand and ultimately believed.

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.

The Bible says that in the last days, there will be people in our churches who are not true believers, among other things. Because of watered-down messages and compromise, people will feel comfortable in certain churches because they are never confronted with their sin. I believe my job as a pastor is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

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

The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.

The Bible says there are things that we should look for that signal the last days and one of them of course is the scattering and regathering of the nation of Israel, which we all know happened in 1948 when Israel was declared a nation.

Ultimately, we know that the way a person finds salvation, the way a person comes into a relationship with God is by admitting their sin and turning to Christ. So, I think because they have done religious ritual A or B or C and think that is sufficient and that's all that is expected, now religion has become a barrier instead of a bridge and gives a false sense of satisfaction.

I have read the last page of the Bible and I know for sure that we win in the end.

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

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.

Millions of people are going to come to Jesus.

I don't think the problem that we have today is overzealous believers. I think the problem we have is underzealous believers.

Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.

I think there is always new people that have never heard the gospel before that need to have it because the gospel - which is the death, resurrection of Christ and the message of his forgiveness - is the only hope for a person knowing that they will go to Heaven and then finding the meaning and purpose they search for in life.

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

I have to impose my belief to share with a person.

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.

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

I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem.

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

The Lord will remove the church but the Holy Spirit will still be working on planet Earth, bringing people into the kingdom.

You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."

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

The churches that are growing and thriving are churches that I would call evangelical and orthodox for the most part in their beliefs. They are churches that tend to evangelize ... and encourage their people to share their faith. These are the churches that are actually growing. The ones that are shrinking are the ones that are compromising and watering down what the word of God says.

The Bible says that in the last days that it will be like labor pains. As a woman is ready to give birth, the labor pains get closer and closer together. That's what I think we are seeing that says we are in, maybe now, the last hours because the events are getting closer together.

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.

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

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.

I appreciate zeal and energy and passion but in our zeal, we just need to do it in a loving way and do it in a compassionate way, not share our faith in a robotic or mechanical way, but interact with the person, listen to them, and respond appropriately to their questions.

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

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

We are supposed to share the gospel. So, I believe it can actually be a sinful thing to not do it.

The scripture teaches that he who now restrains will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way.

You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.

When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.