Dangerous Prayers Quotes

“Grace. Changes. Everything. We don’t bring anything. Jesus brings everything.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Our fears matter. Because ultimately, our fears show how we’re relying on our own efforts and not trusting in our Savior. The truth is we—you and I and everyone—are always inadequate. We’re never enough. We’re always weak.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Faith doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Faith means you don’t let fear stop you.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“the pathway to your greatest potential is often straight through your greatest fear.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“How do you think your life might change if you prayed daily a daring, faith-filled prayer of whole-life devotion to the one who gave it all for you?”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“but the Bible teaches us that our heart deceives us and is desperately wicked. At its core, our heart is all about self—not Christ. It’s about what’s temporary—not eternal. It’s about what’s easy—not what’s right. It’s obsessed with what we want—not what God wants.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Lord, reveal what holds my mind hostage. Show me what I fear the most. Go ahead, help me face what terrifies me.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“It’s easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life; having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity, and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim. Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes; and to push back the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ. Amen!*”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“When you start to avoid what hurts you, what happens? Over time, your spiritual side grows stronger. And your selfish side starts to die.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“When you cry out to God for forgiveness, he doesn’t remember your sins. They are gone. Forgiven. Washed away. And forgotten. In the same way that the coal removed Isaiah’s guilt and sin, the blood of Jesus takes away ours.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. —psalm 139:23–24”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“What if rather than avoiding brokenness we embraced it? Welcomed it? And even prayed for it? “God, break me.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“A. W. Tozer, who said, “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Let your fears drive you to God. The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Because Jesus’ body was broken, because his blood was poured out for us, we too should live daily for him, broken and poured out.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“what God wants for you may be on the other side of what you fear the most.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Your greatest fear may point you to your best chance at making a difference in the world.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“God showed me that what I feared the most revealed where I trusted God the least.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“fears matter. Because ultimately, our fears show how we’re relying on our own efforts and not trusting in our Savior. The truth is we—you and I and everyone—are always inadequate. We’re never enough. We’re always weak. But here’s the incredible thing: when we’re weak, God’s power is made perfect (see 2 Cor. 12:9).”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“That place that I had been most sure that I was right was the place that I was most wrong.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Lord, reveal what holds my mind hostage. Show me what I fear the most. Go ahead,”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

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― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe