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The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist QUOTES

The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist QUOTES

1 " No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

2 " But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

3 " Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

4 " Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

5 " Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

6 " Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

7 " ...If we believe that God wants us happy above all else, rather than acknowledging that our role is to serve God, we wrongly believe that God exists to serve us. God becomes a a means to our end: happiness. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

8 " The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds' (2 Cor. 10:3-4). The Greek word translated as strongholds is ochuroma (pronounced oak-EW-ROH-muh), which means to fortify, lock up, or imprison. This is what our enemy tries to do to us. He lies to us until we're convinced that we're stuck and can never escape our problems. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

9 " If God has done what you think he should do, trust him. If God doesn't do what you think he should do, trust him. If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him. If your worst nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign. Believe he is good. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

10 " God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

11 " Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

12 " When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

13 " Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

14 " If you're not dead, you're not done. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

15 " If God does what you think he should do, trust him. If God doesn’t do what you think he should do, trust him. If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him. If your worst nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign. Believe he is good. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

16 " No es difícil conocer a Dios, y no se trata de un conjunto de reglas. Sí, Dios quiere tu obediencia, pero más que eso desea tu corazón. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

17 " But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

18 " If you’re not ministering and using your gifts in the church, then something God wants done is being ignored. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

19 " God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

20 " El primer paso para llegar a vencer la vergüenza consiste en aceptar lo que no podemos cambiar. "

― Craig Groeschel , The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist