Louie Giglio quotes:

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.

Don't overcomplicate God's will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.

Advent allows us to recover during this four-week journey. It begins four Sundays before Christmas all the way up to Christmas. It lets us breath in those moments of faithfulness and helps us recognize that God is working.

Christ didn't die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!

Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.

No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are.

God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.

You don't have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do the whatever it is that is immeasurably more in your life.

It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.

Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we're waiting and we're really waiting with God.

At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.

Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.

God isn't waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.

It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

As an overflow of my life - the wake I leave behind with my little dash on earth - I want others to fall in love with Jesus and know of His great hope and purpose for their lives.

As long as I can remember, the compelling force behind my calling is a desire to know Jesus more and to make Him known. I believe I was created for a relationship with Jesus, so growing in my relationship with Him and worshiping Him with all my heart and life is preeminent.

Each time I stop somewhere and look out, there are more people sitting there than there were the time I came before. I think that's just a reflection of the fact that what God's doing is really touching the hearts of people and making a difference in their lives. That's kind of the best things you can do to promote anything, I think, is to really just have God present.

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.

Everything thing we're doing is coming out of the living Word of God.

God always gets the glory when Jesus comes.

God calls each and every star by name. Itâ??s not likely He has forgotten yours.

God didn't say, 'Be still and feel that I am God,' He said, 'Be still and know'.

God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world.

God had a heartbeat for 18-25 years old...the vast majority of whom don't have a clue why they are on this planet.

God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn't call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, â??I am here.â??

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.

God is faithful. God is faithful. 400 years might go by, but never count God out.

God is huge! He is ginormous! He is greater than every thought we have ever had of Him.

God is not a taker. God is a giver.

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

God wants to do immeasurably more in & through your life than you could ask.

Godâ??s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe Godâ??s words lead to life.

Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.

Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.

How many of you heard the voice of God speak specifically, clearly, directly, and personally, to you? Can you just put a hand up? I'd like you to share it. Can you put a hand up for a minute? Just want you to look around; that's people saying, "God Almighty, the Maker of heaven, the one Who's sitting on the only throne that's not under threat - He spoke to me. He spoke to me." "God spoke to me." Don't let the voice of the darkness tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you. Don't let him tell you, you don't matter. God spoke to you.

I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.

If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.

If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.

If you've been served by God, you've arrived.

I'm dead in the water if I can't see the all sufficient glory of God.

In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.

It doesn't really matter how rich you are, we're all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.

It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

It's not that we should declare the praises of God. It's that we may.

It's not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It's the object of our worship Who is awesome.

Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough.

Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's life to others.

Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do.

Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed.

Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!

Nothing steals God's glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear

Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

People say all the time 'I don't have a good testimony' because they think their story has to involve some dramatic story of change from 'bad' to 'good'. But Jesus didn't come to save people this way. Sin doesn't make us bad it makes us dead. Jesus came to save by bringing the dead to life. And that's an amazing testimony.

Quit trying to do what I already know you can't do and let Christ do what only He can through you.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

Sin doesn't make you bad, it makes you dead

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.

Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.

The bound are going to go free because Jesus is in this Dome.

The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all the time. I'm always grabbing something out of the headlines, out of the news or reading a book about astronomy and just trying to figure out how to get my head around the facts but the bigger stress is trying to connect those facts to normal life situations and our relationship with God.

The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it's about going from dead to alive!

The only wounds that define us are the wounds of Jesus Christ.

The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.

The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days.

The wonderful living Word of God is more precious than anything else that we have.

The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

The Word of God isn't for one particular season. It's for every season. But in its specific application, it's best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

The Word of God spoke into the dry bones. His breath filled them, put tendons (repair), and put skin on...Then you will know I am God...When Jesus comes that will happen.

There is a direct correlation between your appreciation of what Christ has done for you and the expression of worship

There's no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

There's something that's not right or not perfect or not the way we had hoped or dreamed that it was going to be. But God promises that He will use everything and every moment to ultimately take us to a new Heaven and a new Earth. For now, we're stuck in the middle.

This is an amazing thought: a God who is indescribable.

This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you.

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.

We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

When God breathes He breathes on hard-hearted people.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

When we are foolish God intervenes.

When you strip all of this down it's just about a God in Heaven who loves you very much. And created in you a heart for Him...Your heart was fashioned by Jesus and for Jesus.

Whenever you say 'yes' to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your 'yes' is worth the less.

Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.

While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?

Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It's because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren't DEAD!

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.

Worship starts with seeing something great and then reflecting it to the world. Let's see God so we can reflect God.