Greg Laurie quotes:

Conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit.

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.

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

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.

I believe that the work of the Holy Spirit, through the church, will continue on.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every Christian is called to preach the gospel. We need to take the commission seriously.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I do believe that we are living in the last days. I know this has been said before but there are events happening in our world right now that, to me, are what we call signs of the times.

I don't know when the end of the world is, but there are people that I speak to every night, the end of their world could be tomorrow because we don't know when life will end.

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

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

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'

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

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

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.

I preach as a dying man to dying men.

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

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

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.

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.

If you want to win some, you have to be winsome - be nice, be friendly and then appropriately apply the gospel.

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

It is going to get worse before it gets better.

It seems like things are upside down [in America] as we see right declared as wrong, and wrong as right. God is not pointing His finger at the Supreme Court, or the White House, or the Capitol. If you are a Christian, He is looking at you and at me to humble ourselves, pray, and seek God's face. He expects us to take action.

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.

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

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.

Know this: God's delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

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

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

Loving God more than anyone or anything else is the very foundation of being a disciple. If you want to live your Christian life to its fullest, then love Jesus more than anyone or anything else.

Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.

Millions of people are going to come to Jesus.

My objective is to build a bridge to a person, to establish a dialogue.

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

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

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

Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.

Sometimes, God is going to have you sow a seed. Sometimes, God is going to have you water a seed that someone else sows. Sometimes, God is going to have you reap where others have sowed and watered.

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.

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.

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.

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.

The Bible says that the servant of the Lord must be patient. Not everyone believes immediately.

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.

The Bible speaks of the sense of commission, which is doing what you should not do, instead of omission, which is not doing what you should do. It says in the book of James that if you know to do good and don't do it, it is sin.

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 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 gospel is only good news if it gets there on time. I think if we don't deliver this message, it's negligence of the highest order. It would be like if you were walking down the street and a house was on fire and you heard screams coming from inside and you just kept walking. How irresponsible is that? At the very least, call 911 but better yet, you might run in and try to save the people.

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

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.

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

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.

The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it's a place to preach the word of God.

The real message of Christmas is not the gifts that we give to each other. Rather, it is a reminder of the gift that God has given to each of us. It is the only gift that truly keeps on giving.

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

There God tells us exactly what is going to happen and scripture tells us that there is going to come a world leader who will initially bring overtures of peace. He will help the Jewish people rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. He will have a new economic system where you don't buy or sell without his mark. Initially, for some, it will look like a good deal because there will be peace, as I said.

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.

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.

We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.

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

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

We need people who will strictly interpret the law and not be promoting an agenda, as is the danger right now with some members of the Supreme Court.

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.

What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.

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.

When I get up to speak tonight, it's kind of a monologue. When I am talking with someone one-on-one, it's a dialogue. I ask them questions; I listen; I respond appropriately. I think we can do it in a loving way.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

You will be tested as a leader....You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.

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

God's judgement begins to fall on the Earth.

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

I don't think we have to impose or pressure in anyway but I do think we have to engage people and try to help them to understand what the gospel even is.