Soul Detox Quotes

“Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we love ourselves, and we we're definitely not seeing them as God sees them.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Contrast toxic religion with the pure gospel. Religion is all about what I do. The gospel is all about what Jesus has done. Religion is about me. The gospel is about Jesus. Religion highlights my efforts to do what is right. The gospel highlights what Christ has already done. Religion lures me to believe that if I obey God, he will love me. But the gospel shows me that because God loves me, I get to obey him. Religion puts the burden on us. We have to do what is right. A relationship with Christ puts the burden on him. And because of what he did for us, we get to do what is right. Instead of an obligation, our right living is a response to his gift. Giving Christ our whole lives is the only reasonable response to such love. There nothing more we need to do. Nothing...”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals "I'm available" to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“If you don't handle the hurt properly, their sin becomes a catalyst for your own.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you’re tempted to tell me that yours doesn’t, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Good intentions center around us. We say, “Here’s what I would like to be different about my life.” Good intentions are me-centered. God intentions, on the other hand, are centered on what our Father wants for us. Our intentions tend to focus on what we think we want, but God intentions focus on what he knows we need.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“If someone has been trying to show you something about yourself and you continue to fight it, maybe it’s time to acknowledge that you might be deceived.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Rather than experiencing the richness of a dynamic, intimate relationship with the righteous One, you put God in a little box that you can check off your to-do list each week. By settling for rules and religion and feeling pretty good about how much you’re doing for the church and those less fortunate, you become blinded to legalism and self-righteousness.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“fear actually relies on faith...it's simply faith in the wrong things. Fear is placing you faith in "what ifs" rather in than in "God is”
― Craig Groeschelroeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Each time you think something good, speak it. Never rob someone of the blessings of an unspoken treasure.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Someone said it’s not wrong to have things. It’s wrong when your things have you.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“In our culture, the water temperature increases daily. Without realizing it, we slowly become acclimated to a toxic environment full of poisonous influences. As the water temperature rises, we keep pretending we’re soaking in a hot tub having the time of our lives, never dreaming that we’re scalding our souls. As we become scarred and desensitized to what is right and wrong, good and evil, life-giving and life-draining, we lose sight of our first love. We move away from God one degree at a time.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. — Henry David Thoreau”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“In some ways, negative self-talk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just as an athlete is more likely to make the shot after visualizing making it, she’s also more likely to miss it after visualizing a miss. Your words, whether externally spoken or internally absorbed, shape your future.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“I’ve identified four specific kinds of toxic waste that can poison our minds: (1) pessimism, which usually produces chronically negative thoughts; (2) anxiety, which usually manifests as fearful and worried thoughts; (3) bitterness, which pollutes our thinking with discontented and envious thoughts; and (4) criticism, which pumps destructive judgmental thoughts into our minds.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Since we can’t change what we can’t identify, ask God to show you any areas of your life that may be harmful to you, offensive to the people around you, or displeasing to God himself.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Everything that we allow into our minds, hearts, and lives — everything that we spend our time and money on — has an impact on how we grow, or don’t grow, spiritually.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“You are not a victim of your thoughts. You have the power through Christ to take them captive. As a result, you will find what you are looking for. You can believe the worst or think the best. You can find reasons to worry or reasons to have faith. You can live pessimistically, or you can possess life-changing faith.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“As we become scarred and desensitized to what is right and wrong, good and evil, life-giving and life-draining, we lose sight of our first love. We move away from God one degree at a time.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World