Louie Giglio Quotes

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

— Louie Giglio

“Admitting we are not God-not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things-doesn't belittle us; it frees us.”

— Louie Giglio

As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. ... We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.1

— Louie Giglio

“When you're in the midst of a storm, it's hard to remember that God is always good and glorious, and that God's plans will always prevail, even when yours don't.”

— Louie Giglio

“Be careful whom you fall in love with, because your better judgment can be overwhelmed by your emotions. You know when a situation isn't God's best, so don't just drift along and tell yourself, "I can always fix the problems later." Before you know it, emotion kicks in and there goes your judgment. All of a sudden, you are in a serious relationship with someone whom-if you thought about it honestly-you know you shouldn't be with.”

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“Father, thank You for hearing my cry from the pit. I receive Your grace today and stand on the solid ground of Your righteousness. Every time I think of how You rescued me, my mouth can't help but sing Your praise. I love You and am so grateful for You. Let my whole life sing Your song. Amen!”

— Louie Giglio

“Your circumstances may be black, but Scripture says that God is light. Trust in him, and he will give you a comeback. He will give you a fresh start. He will give you a change of heart and provide a powerful spiritual turnaround. He is with you in the midst of the valley of the shadow of death, and I invite you to praise him and trust his purposes for your life.”

— Louie Giglio

“Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things. If we are not vigilant, we drift from God's glorious ambition for our lives, losing sight of anything remotely grand, trading God-instilled passion for an easier and more often traveled road. And if our hearts aren't awakened by majesty, our lives soon shrink into little bits of nothingness.”

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“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.”

— Louie Giglio

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

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

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

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“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.”

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

— Louie Giglio

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

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“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.”

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“Worship is when we give God His breath back”

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

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

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“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

— Louie Giglio

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

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

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“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.”

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“When God breathes He breathes on hard-hearted people.”

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Yet, Jesus is selfless in the way He gives His life away for you. So if your gaze is on Him, you will treat others as He is treating you.

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

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

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“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.”

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

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

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

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